Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 17:23:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it works!! Message-ID: <13838.44018.700872.677229@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <199809260624.AAA09773@panzer.plutotech.com> References: <199809260624.AAA09773@panzer.plutotech.com>
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Kenneth D. Merry writes: > - Booted DEC Unix, and attempted to partition the thing. Silly me. No > matter what I tried, their disklabel(8) didn't want to disklabel the > damned disk. It didn't work even when I did something like this: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rrz20c bs=64k count=10 If anybody else needs to label a disk using DU, remember that their equiv of "auto" is a second identical device number. So you'd do something like this to put an initial label onto a disk at rz20: disklabel -wr rz20 rz20 The only time this will get you is when there's an entry in /etc/disktab which corresponds to the device you're labeling (the second device is supposed to be the disktab entry name; they really should use "auto"). You can just temporarily move /etc/distab out of the way in that case. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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