Re: install fails at newfs

[Stephan <stephanwib%googlemail.com@localhost>]

I have had exactly the same issue in the past. My solution was to
clear the first 512 Bytes of the physical disk* and rebooting.

* dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0d bs=512 count=1


Regards,

Stephan

2014-06-22 13:43 GMT+02:00 Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>:
> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 05:11:45PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
>> a wedge! i'll have to read up on it.
>> in the meanwhile, is it possible to eliminate the wedge and do a normal
>> install
>> on the wd0 device?
>
> Just use the dk0 device for the installation, it basically just is an alias
> for "wd0a".
>
> Martin