Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way

2001-04-11 Thread Fred Clift
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, dannyman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:58:12PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > > fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN ... > Yeah ... I use it. It seems to do the right thing. Then disklabel doesn't > work. :< ... > disklabel -r -w $disk auto

Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way

2001-04-07 Thread dannyman
On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:31:18PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, dannyman wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:58:12PM -0700, Doug White wrote: [...] > > > fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN > > > PAGE FIRST!) > > > > Yeah ... I use it. It seem

Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way

2001-04-07 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, dannyman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:58:12PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > [...] > > fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN > > PAGE FIRST!) > > Yeah ... I use it. It seems to do the right thing. Then disklabel doesn't > work. :< Well, I

Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way

2001-04-06 Thread dannyman
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:58:12PM -0700, Doug White wrote: [...] > fdisk -I is your friend. (DANGER: THIS IS DESTRUCTIVE -- READ THE MAN > PAGE FIRST!) Yeah ... I use it. It seems to do the right thing. Then disklabel doesn't work. :< I'm looking like this: #!/bin/sh disk='da0' fdisk -I ${

Re: creating an fdisk partition in an automated way

2001-04-04 Thread Doug White
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, dannyman wrote: > Ooookay ... > > So, I gave up on sysinstall and wrote a script that beautifully runs disklabel > and newfs slices for me, writing an fstab and installing packages after > starting off a PXE boot. It is just COOL! Yup :) > Now all my test machines wont boot

creating an fdisk partition in an automated way

2001-04-04 Thread dannyman
Ooookay ... So, I gave up on sysinstall and wrote a script that beautifully runs disklabel and newfs slices for me, writing an fstab and installing packages after starting off a PXE boot. It is just COOL! Now all my test machines wont boot. The hard disk boot just doesn't DO anything, and the