On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: > > Manual fdisk & bsdlabel & newfs would confirm that or otherwise, but Chris >> will have to hunt up mans, docs and howtos on doing that himself, they're >> out there. >> > > Aha! > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html<http://www.wonkity.com/%7Ewblock/docs/html/disksetup.html> > > May/may not be helpful, but the price is right. Feedback welcome. > Can I bow at your feet?!? This gave me just enough of a clue to go back and arbitraility pass 'gpart delete -i 1 ad4' which actually deleted a partition! I then zeroed the first 73 and the last 33 blocks of the drive. fdisk still complained about 'Class not found' which I googled and found to be an artifact of gpart(8). So my question is this now, once gpart has touched a disk, does it have the partition-aids now? Moving on, I then continued the standard process listed by your link, bsdlabel'd my layout and saved it, when I do an 'ls -lsga /dev | grep ad4' I see that I have partitions a,b,d,e,f and I was able to newfs each one of them Next question, from this point (at the fixit prompt) can I preform a manual install of just base? if I can get the system installed at this point then all should be good when I reboot. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"