On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just to be clear; I am not suggesting deleting that 'c' partition.
Thanks for the warning. I never manually delete the ad0s1c partition,
but I'm using Qemu so I do usually rebuild the underlying image to
clear previous
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:17:49PM -0500, Jeff Gold wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just to be clear; I am not suggesting deleting that 'c' partition.
Thanks for the warning. I never manually delete the ad0s1c partition,
but I'm using
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 16:32 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
I don't know about all you ask, but the 'c' partition should always
be there and be set to identify the whole slice eg start at 0 and
the size be the size of the slice. The system uses it to identify
its a damn shame that this is
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:48:53PM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 16:32 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
I don't know about all you ask, but the 'c' partition should always
be there and be set to identify the whole slice eg start at 0 and
the size be the size of the
/dev/[as][d##][s#] alone can represent entire BIOS partitions
/dev/[as][d##] alone can represent entire disk
Not sure why we still need a 'c' slice for legacy ?!
Probably. I don't really know how it gets used, but the system
still seems to expect it somewhere.
That kind of
I am attempting to partition a disk non-interactively using
sysinstall, but I don't seem to be getting this right. I use the
following script on an 80G drive:
debug=true
ufs=/6.2-RELEASE
mediaSetUFS
disk=ad0
partition=all
bootManager=boot
diskPartitionEditor
diskPartitionWrite
On Feb 19, 2008 4:32 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe, if you deleted that special 'c' partition, it made
the rest of the process screw up.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give that a try.
Jeff
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:45:25PM -0500, Jeff Gold wrote:
I am attempting to partition a disk non-interactively using
sysinstall, but I don't seem to be getting this right. I use the
following script on an 80G drive:
debug=true
ufs=/6.2-RELEASE
mediaSetUFS
disk=ad0
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 04:49:25PM -0500, Jeff Gold wrote:
On Feb 19, 2008 4:32 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe, if you deleted that special 'c' partition, it made
the rest of the process screw up.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give that a try.
Just to be clear; I
