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Subject: Re: MiataGL IDE disk install problem
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no don;t do it
you cannot disklabel it on i386 and use it on alhpa.
they are different labels.
just open a olographic shell during installation
and from the shell at isntall time disklabel -w da0

then restart the installation and continue

Rick


On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Eduardo Sepulveda wrote:

> 
> 
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, RJ45 wrote:
> 
> >
> > I got this problem too
> > try this.
> >
> > disklabel -w wd0
> >
> > this if yor disk is called wd0
> >
> > then after it try again with the label editor
> >
> > Rick
> 
> Thanks, I forget to say I don't have anyother *BSD box around, and the
> disk was formerly ext3 labeled... maybe erasing the labels/partitons under
> linux I can workaround. Or install FreeBSD under *86 and disklabel it.
> 
> a+
> 
> --edo
> 
> 
> 
>