Re: setup a drive with disklabel

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On May 3, 2008, at 02:11, Al - image hosting services wrote:

> I am setting up a drive, but I can't seem to get things right with
> disklabel. I have the computer netbooted and I would like to do  
> everything
> manually with NetBSD. Where I am stuck is when I ran: "dd if=/dev/zero
> of=/dev/sd0c bs=8k count=1". Shouldn't this delete the disklabel?

It's supposed to wipe out any previously existing partitioning  
schemes, like an Apple partition map.

> It is still there after I do this (I really don't want to reboot  
> unless I really
> have too).

What you get is the kernel's copy of the disk label.

> I would like to delete everything that is in the disklabel. Then  
> reload
> the drives geometry, then use "disklabel -i /dev/sd0c" to partition  
> the
> drive.  I should then be able to use newfs to format the partitions  
> and
> installboot to install bootxx. This sound good in theory, but in  
> practical
> application I seem to be missing something.

What do you think you're missing?

have fun
Michael

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