From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 22:42:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA00794 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:42:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA00789 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:42:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA04585; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:41:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 22:41:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike Tancsa cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with IDE drive... In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970222094620.009ba2e0@sentex.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 11:29 PM 2/21/97 -0800, Doug White wrote: > >On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > >> I have decided to kill my Win95 partition and take it over with FreeBSD. > >> The problem is, is that I am having no end of troubles trying to disklabel > >> it... > > > >You need to disklabel -w this at some point. > > Sorry, I forgot to include that I have tried that :-( Also, this is a > second SLICE, not a second drive :-( > > disklabel -w wd0s3 auto > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument I will say right now that I am completely lost :) I really need to blow up some disks over summer and learn how to do this properly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major