Subject: Re: Partitioning a drive (formally dos)
To: None <aaronw@sky.ewi.com>
From: Hacksaw <hacksaw@remote60.channel1.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/29/1996 18:59:35
>
> I have been trying to get a label installed on a 1gb disk(sd1) without
> success.  The error that I always get back no matter what angle of
> attack I use.  Listed below you will find the errors that I see.
> Any suggestions on how I can get this darn thing labeled or is the
> drive just not going to work?
>
>(when saving the label info via vi)
>disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: No disk label on disk;
>use "disklabel -r" to install initial label
>re-edit the label? [y]: n
>balboa# disklabel -r sd1
>Bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)

Create the label you want to use in disktab format. Put it into the
disktab file. Then use

disklabel -r -w disktype

to label it.

I have problems to other way as well.

Good luck.
--
Hacksaw