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Date:      Fri, 26 Jun 1998 07:47:20 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Frank Terhaar-Yonkers <fty@cisco.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: some trick to disklabel ZiP disks? 
Message-ID:  <199806261447.HAA07260@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:00:48 EDT." <199806261200.IAA12465@claret.cisco.com> 

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> Shouldn't it be this simple?
> If not, pls advise!

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd1 count=16
# disklabel -rwB sd1 auto
# disklabel -e sd1
<add partitions, etc.  Don't use the 'c' partition.>

You have to nuke the MBR before you can use 'auto'.

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