Subject: Re: fdisk/disklabel and 1.6
To: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
From: Julio Merino <jmmv@menta.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/20/2002 10:36:35
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 02:10:49 -0400 (EDT)
"Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 @ 7:52pm (+0200), Tomas Svensson wrote:
>
> TS> Hi,
> TS>
> TS> I'm trying to install NetBSD 1.6 but no matter what I always end up with
> TS> label d (whole disk) that is not the whole disk:
> TS>
> TS> Size Offset End
> TS> --------- --------- ---------
> TS> c: 1628 0 1627 (NetBSD partition)
> TS> d: 1271 356 1627 (Whole disk)
>
>
> ...i'm about to send-pr about some instanity i'm seeing in the sysinst
> partition editor.
I had the same problem, trying to install NetBSD over a disk which had OpenBSD
previously in it. Using dd to zero the disk solved the problem.
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Julio Merino (http://jmmv.dyndns.org/) <jmmv@menta.net>