From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 11:57:14 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 26C4B37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:57:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from goodmail.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 017AA43F75 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:57:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by goodmail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1491628991; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:57:12 +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 21715-03; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:57:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from rincewind.ijs.si (rincewind.ijs.si [193.2.4.137]) by goodmail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id E70AC28987; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:57:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from rincewind.ijs.si (rincewind.ijs.si [193.2.4.137]) by rincewind.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8B6B3124; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:57:10 +0200 (CEST) From: Dejan Lesjak To: Pierrick Brossin Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:57:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200307162227.47688.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <3F160257.7060100@swissgeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <3F160257.7060100@swissgeeks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307172057.10445.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new / Sophos+Sophie at ijs.si cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org 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: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:57:14 -0000 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