John Baldwin wrote:
It is kind of semantic. However, on the alpha it is hardly dangerous. Nor
do we fake a MBR on the alpha (which is what makes it dangerous). The alpha
architecture doesn't use MBR's, but the PC arch does. Thus, having a disklabel
on the alpha is normal, having one at
I have recently created a disklabel on a slice of an ata disk with
disklabel. Of course i had to create an entry in /etc/disktab to do
that, but encountered no other problem.
Last time I had to do that, I used dd to copy the first couple of
blocks from a working disk onto the new one,
: I think you are specifying the wrong arguments to disklabel; I
: seem to rememebr a -w/-W distinction...
:
:Nope.
:
: In any case, I'm running with a disklabel inside a DOS partition
: on all but one box of mine, and always have been. I installed
: 4.1 on my laptop that way.
:
:Sysinstall can
On 28-Oct-00 Matt Dillon wrote:
: I think you are specifying the wrong arguments to disklabel; I
: seem to rememebr a -w/-W distinction...
:
:Nope.
:
: In any case, I'm running with a disklabel inside a DOS partition
: on all but one box of mine, and always have been. I installed
: 4.1 on my
: # optional dd if you are paranoid
: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=32k count=4
: fdisk -I da0
: disklabel -w -r da0s1 auto
:
: That's much preferable to having to use sysinstall if all you want to
: do is initialize a label on a slice.
:
:Yes, this is
On 28-Oct-00 Matt Dillon wrote:
: # optional dd if you are paranoid
: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=32k count=4
: fdisk -I da0
: disklabel -w -r da0s1 auto
:
: That's much preferable to having to use sysinstall if all you want to
: do is initialize a label on
