From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 25 10:36:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA06241 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:36:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA06233 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:36:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA19716 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:35:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA17345; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:36:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 10:36:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Stan Brown cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Bad partiton magic number? Help please. In-Reply-To: <199711241952.LAA23387@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Stan Brown wrote: > I am trying to set up the ccd driver, and I keep geting the message: > > Primary partion bad magic. WEll, what are you trying to do? What commands are you using? Note that it will spit that out when you intially disklabel since no partition table exists on a shiny new ccd. Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ and http://stampede.cs.baerkeley.edu/ccd/ for hints. I'll gladly add the relevant command(s) to the tutorial if someoe can mail them to me. It's the time of year for building ccds I guess... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major