Subject: Re: Install problem
To: Gregory Smith <wolfy@cmu.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/12/1999 07:50:26
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 04:44:03 -0500
Gregory Smith <wolfy@cmu.edu> wrote:
> I recently came across a Decstation 3000/400 I would like to install
> NetBSD on. I've moved the hard drive to another DECstation running
> port-pmax, and tried to dd the install image onto it. I'm getting this
> error message:
>
> > dd if=cdhdtape bs=16k of=/dev/rz1c
> dd: /dev/rz1c: Read-only file system
>
> Must I prepare the disk in some way? It's currently disklabelled with one
> partition rz1a filling the whole disk, in addition to rz1c
> Thanks much
It's trying to prevent you from writing over the disklabel area. Try
doing "disklabel -W /dev/rz1c" first.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>