> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The process ends up being something like:
> > 
> > put the disk image (with dd) on the a SCSI disk.
> > 
> 
> 
> I have a new seagate 9 GB disk. I downloaded rz25-image files to my SGI
> workstation.
> I connected this new disk drive to my SGI machine. then I use 
> dd if=rz25-image of=/dev/rdsk/dks1d3s7
> Then, it give me error:
> No space available on /dev/rdsk/dks1d3s7

is 's7' correct?  The slice you're writing to should have raw access
to the complete disk, without the need for a disklabel or anything
like that.  (is the convention under irix that slice 7 has that
property?)


chris