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>