On Friday, May 21, 1999 10:09 AM, Hauke Fath [SMTP:hf@Melog.DE] wrote:
> At 15:45 21.05.99 +0200, Thilo Manske wrote:
>
> >This is the only way wich works for me on "blank" harddiscs:
> >
> >disklabel /dev/rwd1 > tempfile
> >vi tempfile
> >disklabel -R -r /dev/rwd1 tempfile
>
> Same experience here (on a Sparc IPX, yesterday).
> IMHO, the disklabel(8) manpage is a mess.
>
> 	hauke
>
Actually, "disklabel -C -e sd1"  has worked great for me on port-sparc. 
 The -C gives you a cylinder/heads/sector type of display which makes it 
much easier to start and stop partitions on cylinder boundaries.