Would you believe it was a jumper on the HD that was causing all the problems. The HD is setup as the primary IDE master, but the jumper settings on the HD were not configured as such. Once the correct jumper settings were in place fdisk behaved normally.
I'd like to add that I bought the PC "as is" from a friend, and so figured this kind of thing would already have been sorted. I won't make that kind of assumption again. So the good news is that I now have more than 2G to play with. The bad news is that seeing as I installed an OS while the jumpers were not configured correctly, this seems to have corrupted sections of the disk. So be warned: make sure your HD jumper settings are correct for the HD's position! Regards Dg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
