Subject: Re: edlabel problems
To: None <kshuff@fast.net>
From: David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/16/1997 16:54:28
kshuff@fast.net wrote:
> 
>  This might be a dumb question, but how do you exit from edlabel? Im
> trying to install a NetBSD Sep 96 release on a MicroVAX II, but every
> time I come to edlabel , I enter the drive geometry and partition
> layout, and enter "q" to quit, then it asks me for another disk to
> label.

  You have to use "w" to write out the label information.  If you do this it
should bring you back to the normal edlabel prompt.

> If I halt the processor, reboot off the installation tape, and
> enter edlabel again and do a "s" for show, nothing was written. How do
> I get out of edlabel and have the information saved?  >

  You're right about how to get out of it--you just missed a step.
  Good luck with it!

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David Evans              (NeXTMail OK)              dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
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