Yeah - my mistake.  I really meant to say disklabel, but somehow fdisk
just popped out.!

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Olaf Seibert wrote:

> On Sun, 16 May 1999, Paul Goyette wrote:
> 
> > You won't be able to do much with the other partitions until the
> > partition type is set to something recognizable (165 or 169) by fdisk.
> 
> Eh? I've always been able to use disks that were never touched by fdisk
> at all. As long as they were not the boot disk (on i386).
> 
> My problems were, and they may be applicable here too, is to write the
> very first disklabel to the disk. Often, only the in-core disklabel would
> be edited, but it would not be written to disk. To do that, I write the
> desired disklabel in text form (from disklabel -e sd1) to a file, say
> /tmp/label, then something like disklabel -R sd1 /tmp/label to write it.
> 
> -Olaf.
> --
> ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert - rhialto@polder.ubc. ---- Unauthorized duplication,
> \X/ .kun.nl ---- while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing. 
> 
> 

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