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Re: Anyone working on an automated install?



On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:07:17 +0000
David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote:

> > The first looks kind of redundant. Am I missing something?
> 
> You want to be able to zero the sector that contains any existing
> NetBSD disk label.
> The kernel won't let you do that unless you do an ioctl() first, and
> the flag is cleared on last clse of all the disk partitions.
> Zeroing the mbr sector stops the kernel finding a disk label [1] - so
> it won't error the next write.

So, yes I was missing something. Thanks :)

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3072D/F3A66B3A Julian Yon (2012 General Use) <pgp.2012%jry.me@localhost>

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