From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 19 10:17:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles510.castles.com [208.214.165.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64AA614C23 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 10:17:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02815; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 10:21:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912191821.KAA02815@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Andreas Braukmann Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:19:52 +0100." <19991219121952.C15806@cage.tse-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 10:21:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > ... 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message