From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 13:27:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BFE37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:27:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goodmail.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DD8143F85 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 13:27:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by goodmail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98AB7283F2; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:27:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from goodmail.ijs.si ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (goodmail.ijs.si [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16301-09; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:27:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from rincewind.ijs.si (rincewind.ijs.si [193.2.4.137]) by goodmail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C24283C9; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:27:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from rincewind.ijs.si (rincewind.ijs.si [193.2.4.137]) by rincewind.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id E47B8D9F; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:27:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Dejan Lesjak To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 22:27:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307162227.47688.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new / Sophos+Sophie at ijs.si Subject: Re: Alpha and labels stuff X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:27:52 -0000 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