Subject: Re: disklabel crashes
To: None <bob@waterw.com>
From: maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 04/29/1997 14:02:45
>I've been trying to install a disklabel and miniroot on a spare machine, and
>the disklabel program always crashes.  My helper machine is a DS 3100 running
>Ultrix 4.2.  Here is the command I've been using:
>
>   disklabel -w -B -b rzboot /dev/rz2c rz56
>
>Yes, drive 2 is the one I want to label, and it is an RZ56.  The disklabel
>tool and rzboot came from the pmax section of ftp.netbsd.org.

You need to edit a disklabel by hand and then use the disklabel
program to "restore" it to the disk.  This was documented only in a
readme that came with the source for the ultrix-based disklabel.

cheers,
entropy

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