Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:22:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Jameel Akari <jakari@bithose.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: "Michael A. Smith" <msmith@code-fu.com>, <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: install troubles right at the beginning Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.33.0108241618570.17809-100000@poptart.bithose.com> In-Reply-To: <15238.45674.743783.199295@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Michael A. Smith writes: > > I've done lots of FreeBSD/i386 installs and several Linux/alpha installs, > > There have historically been some problems installing on machines that > used to run linux. I've never heard of of waht you're seeing before, > I suspect there may be some problem with the disklabel on the drive > you're attempting to install onto. Hmm.. Are these disks with msdos I had this problem trying to install DEC Unix 4.0 on a disk that had been fdisked with Linux. Disklabel would fail. I'd imagine *BSD could have a similar issue. > install FreeBSD on by dd'ing /dev/zero over the first meg or so of it > before you attempt to install. And I think that's how we eventually had to fix the problem (essentially completely destroy the old label / partition info.) -- Jameel Akari #!/jameel/akari for zig in $(find / -name zig); do rm -f $zig; done; export GREAT_JUSTICE=1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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