Re: [9fans] Better Safe Than Sorry (Partitioning Question)

2010-02-15 Thread erik quanstrom
> Here is an example of what I have: > > cylinder = 8225280 bytes > *p1 0 7295 (7295 cylinders, 55.88 GB) HPFS > `p2 7295 7296 (1 cylinders, 7.84 MB) PLAN9 > > I am trying the command > > d p2 > > followed by > > a p2 [7265[7296]] > > The usual response is: ?syntax error. > > General

Re: [9fans] Better Safe Than Sorry (Partitioning Question)

2010-02-15 Thread Steve Simon
> I am trying the command > d p2 >followed by > a p2 [7265[7296]] > The usual response is: ?syntax error. The syntax you are using is wrong, you should be typing a p2 7265 7296 (no square brackets), however this will overlap Partition 1 which fdisk will not allow. You would

[9fans] Better Safe Than Sorry (Partitioning Question)

2010-02-15 Thread E
Hello again, So I finally got my CD working very nicely to check out the P9 system interface. (I chose to install it to my laptop which has windows instead of circum-navigating around and re-writing the disc, etc.) After getting a little familiar with the interface, I feel like this would somethin