Subject: disklabel question (a different one this time)
To: None <port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Paul Bickford <bickford@jimmy.harvard.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 10/21/1997 13:55:48
OK, I'm trying to prepare a drive on my DS3100 to install NetBSD onto, but
I keep getting the following error:
# disklabel -w -B -b rzboot -s bootrz rz1 st
disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: Open partition would move or shrink.
#
[note: disk type "st" refers to a Seagate ST1480N drive]
I have NOT mounted rz1 anyplace, and the only thing my machine is looking
at is rz0 (specifically, the "a" partition). Replacing "rz1" in the above
command with "/dev/rz1a", "/dev/rz1c", "/dev/rrz1c", etc., has no effect.
Given the following:
* rz0a is a somewhat hacked 32M-diskimage boot disk.
* rz0d contains the distribution files for NetBSD/PMAX
including miniroot, rzboot, bootrz.
* rz1 (with a bogus disklabel originally made for a i386 NetBSD)
is where I want to install the complete PMAX NetBSD
How would you go about the installation? [The "Installing NetBSD on a PMAX"
guide doess not offer much help (or hope) for a newbie such as myself.]
Help??
Paul.
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