Re: Manually creating slices

[James Colannino <james%eracks.com@localhost>]

John Nemeth wrote:
> On Nov 29,  9:38am, James Colannino wrote:
> } John Nemeth wrote:
> } 
> } > Ultimately the solution to all these problems is GPT.  However,
> } > I don't know if your BIOS supports booting from a GPT disk.  See
> } > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table for more
> } > information.
> } 
> } I'll have to look into that.  I've used GPT in the past on Linux, but 
> } that was with non-bootable partitions, so the BIOS wasn't an issue.  Are 
> } there GPT-capable tools in NetBSD (assuming I can boot from it)?  The 
>
>      gpt(8) for dealing with the partition table.  Then you create
> wedges to represent the partitions (see 'man dkctl').

I've run into a problem with gpt.  I installed NetBSD on another hard 
drive, since the install CD doesn't appear to have either dkctl or gpt, 
and when I try to run gpt on ld0, I get the following errors:

#gpt create -f ld0

gpt: unable to open device 'rld0d': no such file or directory

I tried opening ld0 with fdisk (#fdisk ld0), and it works just fine.  Am 
I missing something?

I know I'll get this eventually ;)  Thanks again.

James
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