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Date:      Wed, 16 Jul 2003 10:54:36 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        Pierrick Brossin <pbrossin@swissgeeks.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Alpha and labels stuff
Message-ID:  <20030716085435.GP72706@cicely12.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <1058344752.3f150f30b2195@www.swissgeeks.com>
References:  <1058339743.3f14fb9f3f7ac@www.swissgeeks.com> <20030716082226.GN72706@cicely12.cicely.de> <1058344752.3f150f30b2195@www.swissgeeks.com>

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On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:39:12AM +0200, Pierrick Brossin wrote:
> Quoting Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>:
> 
> > Zero the first blocks of that disk.
> > sysinstall might get confused by non alpha contents and not offer you
> > the drive.
> 
> OK I'll try this tonight!
> 
> I thought fdisking to remove the partition would be OK but I forgot the MBR.
> You're talking about the MBR right ?

You still have an fdisk table on the disk - just without partitions.
In fact I don't know what detail sysinstall confuses - if I would then
it should be easier to fix.

-- 
B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
ticso@bwct.de                                  info@bwct.de



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