On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 01:05:35PM -0700, Aditya wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to disklabel a second IDE disk and running into a few problems
> and could do with a few hints. The IDE drive was in a FreeBSD/i386 system with
> a single partition. Needless to say, disklabel isn't able to read it and so
> I'm trying to start from scratch however the instructions in the Handbook look
> to be for the i386 port.
> 
> I've tried writing the following label and disklabel complains about the
> following line not having enough entries, ie.:
> 
> #        size    offset     fstype  [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
>   c:        *         0     4.2BSD

You need to add fsize, bsize and cpg/sgs informations. For example:
c:        *         0     4.2BSD 1024 8192 16

Also I wouldn't use the c partition for this, as it's the raw partition.
So I would use:
a:        *         0     4.2BSD 1024 8192 16
c:        *         0     unused 0 0

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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