From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Dec 17 12:50:52 2002 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 95D4837B401 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:50:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from cma2600.org (h00104b2fcc85.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.198.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7667D43EC2 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:50:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setient@cma2600.org) Received: by cma2600.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 84F6F82; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:49:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cma2600.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61082A; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:49:17 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 15:49:14 -0500 (EST) From: Ronald Cotoni To: Falko Meyer Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 433 au In-Reply-To: <3DFF2BF8.C4FD546D@yahoo.de> Message-ID: <20021217154848.K1085-100000@cma2600.org> References: <20021202092405.I33855-100000@trillian.santala.org> <20021202095350.I81474-100000@cma2600.org> <3DEF3D9E.1A985CCA@yahoo.de> <20021216134139.I47593-100000@cma2600.org> <3DFF2BF8.C4FD546D@yahoo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org yeah it was saying unable to determine hd size so the installer is reporting it as having no disk...any way to fix that????i think the partitions are messed up On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Falko Meyer wrote: > Please tell some more abut these "errors". > > Ronald Cotoni wrote: > > > > booting with a netbsd disk and dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0 didn't work it > > is still reporting errors with it > > > > On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Falko Meyer wrote: > > > > > Ronald Cotoni wrote: > > > > > > > > should i let dd finish or not? > > > > > > You can, but it should not be important. Ist should overwrite a few of > > > the fist megabytes on the disk: > > > > > > > > You can also specify bs and count if you like or just let that run for a > > > > > few seconds. Then reboot with your preferred installation media. > > > > > > > > Greetings, > Falko Meyer > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message