On  3 Mar, Fred_deBros@etherdome.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:

> Then i do disklabel sd2 (my SCSI HDD) and it gives me all sorts of info
> ...ending in:
> 
> 3 partitions:
> c: size type  etc
> 
> 
> obviously I have to edit that file in vi. like he.....
Use:
disklabel sd2 > dl
disklabel -rR sd2 dl
disklabel -i sd2	# / is "a", swap is "b", "c" is unused.
disklabel -B sd2
The last makes the disk bootable. 
Then newfs ..., mount ..., tar xzfp ..., vi /mnt/etc/{rc.conf,fstab},
reboot and be happy with your fresh installed VAX. :-)
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tschuess,
          Jochen

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