Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:57:10 +0200 From: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> To: Pierrick Brossin <pbrossin@swissgeeks.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha and labels stuff Message-ID: <200307172057.10445.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> In-Reply-To: <3F160257.7060100@swissgeeks.com> References: <200307162227.47688.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <3F160257.7060100@swissgeeks.com>
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On Thursday 17 of July 2003 03:56, Pierrick Brossin wrote: > > 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. > > Downloaded the iso, burnt it and used it as you said but it didn't help. > When I run bsdlabel -w it doesn't say anything, like it has succeded but > when I go again in the installation process I'm back to the "FreeBSD > DiskLabel Editor" and there's nothing in there. > > Regards Apparently you need to reboot between making bsdlabel and going into installation procedure again. I have here AlphaPC 264DP with EV67 open on desk, because there is something wrong with it's scsi controller, so I can try some other approaches if this doesn't work and someone comes up with something. Dejan
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