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Date:      Sun, 19 Dec 1999 10:21:22 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come? 
Message-ID:  <199912191821.KAA02815@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:19:52 %2B0100." <19991219121952.C15806@cage.tse-online.de> 

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> > > ... just after having the standard disklabel -rw ad0 auto (my boot disk is
> > > da0) complained about 'no space left on device'. Yes, ... I did the
> > > disklabel -W ad0 ...
>  
> > You forgot to overwrite the beginning of the disk.
>
> ... and yes I did (before doing the 'fdisk') a nice little
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad0 count=10000 
> 
> Do you have any further hints?

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=16
disklabel -rwB ad0 auto

works.  At some point you deviated from this.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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