What devices are reported by dmesg - do you see an 'sd0'?

		David/absolute

On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Can Altineller wrote:

> 
> 
> 	Hello;
> 
> 	When I run disklabel sd0 I get:
> 
> disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Operation not supported by device
> 
> 	what does this mean? I put in a 2 gig SCSI HD from a sparc machine
> that was running linux, so it is not a clean drive.
> 
> 	Thanks a bunch.
> 
> 	-C.A.
> 	
> > On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:
> > > On  3 Feb, Can Altineller wrote:
> > 
> > > > 	Can someone give me hints please? I understand there must be a
> > > > edlabel program, or some stuff that comes with the miniroot, but I dont
> > > > have those. 
> > 
> > > Boot the box over the net. Put a disklabel(8) on the disk, newfs(8) the
> > > patitions, mount(8) them under /mnt.
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > BTW: The easyest way to disklabel a new disk is:
> > > disklabel sd0 > dl
> > > vi dl
> > > disklabel -rR sd0 dl 
> > > Remember to put partition boundarys on cyliner boundarys.  
> > 
> > I'm partial to the "disklabel -i sd0" command.  Of course if you're new to
> > dealing with BSD disklabels, you'll probably be confused.
> > 
> > -brian.
> > --- Brian Chase | bdc@world.std.com | http://world.std.com/~bdc/ -----
> > I've said it before, and I'll say it again.  You can diagnose people 
> > based on where they sit on the bus.  -- K.
> > 
> > 
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