On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 04:53:40PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote: > Looks like this is discussed before, but I am unclear about how to go > about it when one comes across this problem. > > https://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2015/01/22/msg026532.html > > It's a new laptop with no other OS or data to preserve. What is it that -f > will do that I need to worry about and how do I do -f if it is safe?! > > I am using 9.0 RC1 installer.
Go to the utility menu, run /bin/sh and there: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0a bs=1m count=20 *but* be sure wd0 is the disk you want to install to and there is *nothing* of value on it. After that command exit the shell and retry the installation. Martin
