format slice

[Alejandro Pulver]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:58:10 +0100
"Freek Nossin" <freeknossin at tiscali.nl> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a freebsd installation on a disk with two slices. One of them
> has the current freebsd install, the other has a win2k installation. I
> want to convert the win2k slice to a freebsd slice (by deleting the
> old one and add a new one). I followed the handbook but when I try to
> delete the win2k slice, and want to write the changes to the disk,
> sysinstall returns "a disk error". The steps I took were simple:
> 
> - run sysinstall en select fdisk
> - choose delete on the NTFS slice 
> - Write changes
> 
> Then sysinstall complains that it cannot do that (no specific
> information on the cause of the error is displayed). 
> 
> Does anyone know what can be wrong and how can I solve this?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Hello,

Try using 'fdisk' directly (man 8 fdisk) and see the complete error
messages.

For example, to delete the second slice (check the numbering with
'fdisk -s') save the following in a file and then run 'fdisk -f <file>'
(but first try the test mode with the -t flag to see if it works as
expected):

p 2 0 0 0

Best Regards,
Ale

P.S.: what is the output of 'fdisk -s'?