On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Harald Bjoroy wrote:


> Just tell me how to get passed this, and I will try again. Someone
> suggested that I should vipe the disk - point me to the tools and I will
> get right at it.

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1c bs=1024k count=<size of discs in Mb>
			      ^-- this is where the 'whole disk' patririon
				  comes in usefull

This may not work - the kernel will want to know about the c partitoon and
will read the disklabel - and if the disklabel is what is causing the
problem in the first place...
 
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