Subject: Re: Installing NetBSD
To: Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>
From: Mikhail Veygman <moisha@iquest.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/29/2000 19:14:16
Julian Coleman wrote:
>
> > I've built a bootable CD for Sparc NetBSD 1.4.2, and I'm trying to
> > install it on SPARCstation 4 which had previously had a NextStep OS
> > installed on it and I need to rewrite disklabel which NS had put on the
> > disk. The Filesystem is 4.3BSD and I can't find a way to remove it so
> > that NetBSD can be installed.
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0c bs=512 count=2
>
> should zero the first 2 blocks of the disk, thus wiping out the old label.
> Hmm, you might only need to zero the first block.
>
> J
>
> --
> My other computer also runs NetBSD
> http://www.netbsd.org/
Thank you. That did it.