Rob,
  What type of disk drive do you have and what was the command line you
used?  I've always (1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1) had this problem labelling new disks.
With any luck, I'll be able to find my setup notes.....

Steven G.

At 02:46 PM 1/14/98 -0500, Rob Deker wrote:
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>I'm installing 1.3 on a Sparc5/170, and I'm running into the following
>after laying out the drive partition tables with disklabel:
>
>disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Label magic number or checksum is wrong!
>(disklabel or kernel is out of date?)
>re-edit the label? [y]:
>
>I'm using the miniroot supplied with 1.3. Is there something I'm missing
>here?
>
>rob                 
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