Re: How do I label a disk?

From: Oscar del Rio (delrio_at_mie.utoronto.ca)
Date: 06/06/05


Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 07:39:15 -0400


_moray wrote:

> Part Tag Flag First Sector Size Last Sector
> 0 root wm 34 128.00MB 262177
> 1 swap wu 262178 128.00MB 524321
> 2 unassigned wm 0 0 0
> 3 unassigned wm 0 0 0
> 4 unassigned wm 0 0 0
> 5 unassigned wm 0 0 0
> 6 usr wm 524322 16.61GB 35362114
> 8 reserved wm 35362115 8.00MB 35378498

DELETE all partitions
ADD partition 2 that starts on sector 0 and spans the entire disk
LABEL
INSTALL solaris on that disk

The "dd" command on s0 did not do anything because your s0 is not on sector 0.
With s2 on sector 0 you can try dd on s2 to clear the label if the install still
fails.



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