Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:27:47 +0200 From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha and labels stuff Message-ID: <200307162227.47688.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
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Pierrick Brossin wrote: > Bernd Walter wrote: > >> From within FreeBSD: >> dd if=/dev/zero bs=10240 count=1 of=/dev/adn >> replace adn with ad0 or whatever your disk is named. > > Did it from my FBSD 5.1-C x86 machine. > It writed the 10240 bytes successfully but it's still not working on the > alpha :) > > It says "You can only do this in a disk slice (at top of screen)" > > Thanks for helping, I really appreciate! > Hello, When I tried to install FreeBSD on alphas, I didn't get that error, however in label editor there was no space for creating labels showed, so I don't know if this will work. Anyway, try getting live-filesystem disk (rescue disk, 5.1-RELEASE-alpha-disc2.iso), then from installer go to Fixit and choose CDROM/DVD. That should get you to command prompt. You should then find bsdlabel program (/sbin/bsdlabel or /mnt/sbin/bsdlabel, I don't recall exactly) and use # /path/to/bsdlabel -w /dev/adn to create standard disklabel. Sysinstall should then recognise this label and show free space to create labels on. I hope this helps in any way. Dejan
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