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Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 21:18:12 -0700
From: Danny Howard <dannyman@tellme.com>
To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
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Subject: Re: fdisk & disklabel dont work!
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Okay.

Well, FWIW, fdisk -I does *not* work successfully for me, under any
circumstances I've tried so far.

I have found a work-around, though:

TERM=cons25 # If serial console, set this to vt100
export TERM
/stand/sysinstall nonInteractive=YES partition=all bootManager=standard \
disk=${disk} diskPartitionEditor diskPartitionWrite

Woohah!

Interestingly enough, I see the same complaints about there not being a
disklabel, but my subsequent disklabel commands work.  To whit:

disk=${disk}s1

disklabel -r -w $disk auto
disksize=`disklabel $disk | awk -F : '$1 == "sectors/unit" {print $2}'`
[...]
disklabel $disk | grep -v '  c:' > /tmp/mylabel
disklabel -R -B $disk /tmp/mylabel

And then some MAKEDEV, newfs, distributions, packages, config files, etc.

Okay, so I'll need to test this some more, but this is a pleasant
break-through for the evening.  One which I hope will hold. :)

This is way screwed up, imho.  I might investigate some day as to why
sysinstall can do what fdisk -I can not, but I have some machines that are
overdue for installs. :)

-danny

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