Subject: Re: Looking for cross-compiled disklabel or bootblocks
To: Ted Spradley <tsprad@metronet.com>
From: Dean Huxley <dean@fsa.ca>
List: port-pmax
Date: 10/31/1994 09:52:19
> but that left me with a root filesystem 98% full on a root partition
> two-thirds empty, so I dd'ed the miniroot onto the 5 Mbyte 'd' partition
> where it fit snugly. I wanted to change the disklabel, but I couldn't
> run disklabel -e under netbsd because I did't have /v/tmp/vi.recover,
> or TERM, or any of that
There is another way to do this in the miniroot:
mount /
cd /tmp
disklabel -r -r rz0 > foo
ed foo
disklabel -W rz0
disklabel -R -r rz0 foo
I guess this information is a little late to help you, but I thought I would
let others know. Actually, once the bootblocks and the miniroot are on the
disk, it is possible never to have to run Ultrix again. Resizing the 'a'
partition requires a few disklabel/dd/reboot sequences, but it is possible ;-)
Dean.