On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Marc Frajola wrote:
> > What are you using for your command lines? You have to target the
> > disklabel specifically at slice 1 on the disk otherwise disklabel will
> > think you're trying to overwrite the slice table and get mad.
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> fdisk -e /dev/rda1
> disklabel -r -w da1 auto
Yeah, this is wrong. You need to specify a slice.
I generally don't depend on the 'auto' magic -- it breaks for IDE
disks, and I'm not sure it works for slices either.
> OK, may I ask what the ".. magic .." part is??
Take a look at src/release/picobsd/install/floppy.tree/etc/prepdisk in the
source tree. This is an awk script that generates a root partition and
255MB of swap on the target disk by doing the higher math on the number of
sectors on the disk. You may have to change the disk type in the script
but otherwise it's the same for IDE and SCSI.
I'm looking at the script and notice that it doesn't select slice
1... somehow disklabel DTRT. It works here :-)
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