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Date:      Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:58:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104042057170.49028-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010404181245.P40739@dell.dannyland.org>

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On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, dannyman wrote:

> Ooookay ...
>
> So, I gave up on sysinstall and wrote a script that beautifully runs disklabel
> and newfs slices for me, writing an fstab and installing packages after
> starting off a PXE boot.  It is just COOL!

Yup :)

> Now all my test machines wont boot.  The hard disk boot just doesn't DO
> anything, and the pxeboot crashes once it sees the SCSI disk.  Best I can
> tell from some Deja searches, this is related to the Adaptec controller
> reviling at the thought of a "dangeously dedicated" disk.

Yup.

> But I can not for the life of me figure out how to do it the right way.

fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN
PAGE FIRST!)

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org


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