Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:54:32 -0500 From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop Message-ID: <AANLkTi=1Zk2-Us=z9vyR6RcoodaPOxj=4BtXvCtYosKh@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101061423570.23404@wonkity.com> References: <20101229120038.3DFB0106591A@hub.freebsd.org> <20101230133126.O36121@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTinCZuupW%2BGFMeL70nPO90tZAAJNj8g0SaOztsR3@mail.gmail.com> <20101231105353.S36121@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTinSbE8d=iYES78GJmYO2PyOAGHMjwQ%2B2HT45yxc@mail.gmail.com> <20110102102255.00004f57@unknown> <20110102230702.N49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20110103022619.O49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTimkCdtULT9jfNtwKcfxF8R-TQ_j=qZgS-Y-YGfu@mail.gmail.com> <20110104143245.P49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTi=Aqh4cpmdkHx1QsTyoYh7nhinEfDUuPO3fUAh5@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101041840310.14633@wonkity.com> <20110105152725.U49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTinfVLGomOj-Nanvr4sgei-p=HQ9-Mh0rXQQ7E%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> <20110106160720.B49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <AANLkTimXQXmk2t8xBN1H7fWkyNo%2BFyasU8KaSeakpnUJ@mail.gmail.com> <20110106230849.H49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1101061423570.23404@wonkity.com>
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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Ian Smith wrote: > > Manual fdisk & bsdlabel & newfs would confirm that or otherwise, but Chris >> will have to hunt up mans, docs and howtos on doing that himself, they're >> out there. >> > > Aha! http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html<http://www.wonkity.com/%7Ewblock/docs/html/disksetup.html>; > > May/may not be helpful, but the price is right. Feedback welcome. > Can I bow at your feet?!? This gave me just enough of a clue to go back and arbitraility pass 'gpart delete -i 1 ad4' which actually deleted a partition! I then zeroed the first 73 and the last 33 blocks of the drive. fdisk still complained about 'Class not found' which I googled and found to be an artifact of gpart(8). So my question is this now, once gpart has touched a disk, does it have the partition-aids now? Moving on, I then continued the standard process listed by your link, bsdlabel'd my layout and saved it, when I do an 'ls -lsga /dev | grep ad4' I see that I have partitions a,b,d,e,f and I was able to newfs each one of them Next question, from this point (at the fixit prompt) can I preform a manual install of just base? if I can get the system installed at this point then all should be good when I reboot.
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