All,
got some old drives I've been putting linux on for a local group. (they give them away at install fests.) Now comes the problem 3 drives that apparently at some time in there life had FreeBSD on them. Using Linux Fdisk you always see the old BSD partition table... but can't do anything with it. DOS fdisk sees a small primary 1 partition and the rest as extended logical. Can't remove the logical partitions because it says there aren't any. Cant remove/replace the extended DOS partition because DOS fdisk says there are logical partitions. Took the drive to a friend who runs FreeBSD He said that fdisk there showed one big dos partition (it had win95 on it) He blew it away gave it back to me. And voila. Linux still sees FreeBSD partitions etc. Gave the drive back to my friend. He did cat dev/zero to the whole drive 2 times (only 850 megs each) reformated them as one big partion gave them back.... Fdisk still sees the freebsd partitions. DOS still sees 2 one primary one logical. Is my best bet just scream hockey puck and get out the sticks or is there a better way. BTW Mandrakes graphical install see's thing correctly ............ but even after running that.... regular fdisk sees ... yep .... FreeBSD! James
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