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Date:      Sat, 18 Dec 1999 18:01:21 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come? 
Message-ID:  <199912190201.SAA01698@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Dec 1999 02:12:22 %2B0100." <19991219021222.B15806@cage.tse-online.de> 

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> On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 04:21:19PM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 02:18:17PM +0100, Ron Klinkien
> > <ron@zappa.demon.nl> wrote:
> >
> > > Is is not possible to configure and add a second disk via the
> > > /stand/sysinstall Label and Fdisk menu's?
> ... I got this, too, ... but
> >
> > Hmm, yes I got it too. Me thinks it's related to change from block
> > devices to char and to the MAKEDEV. Anybody out there please
> > correct me if I'm wrong. I had to do standard disklabel -rw ad1
> > auto and after that edit the disklabel by hand. It's certainly not

Sysinstall is not build with 'make world', and should not be used on a 
system that's been updated that way.

> ... just after having the standard disklabel -rw ad0 auto (my boot disk is
> da0) complained about 'no space left on device'. Yes, ... I did the
> disklabel -W ad0 ...

You forgot to overwrite the beginning of the disk.

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\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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