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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Help! disklabeling a Micropolis ESDI drive -- followup
Message-ID: <C6I3wq.9tK@obiwan.uucp>
Date: 4 May 93 11:58:01 GMT
References: <C6H7zB.642@obiwan.uucp> <C6H86M.68z@obiwan.uucp>
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX
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Well, I managed a work-around for this problem. I re-cabled the drive
as drive 0 and used the original 0.1 install diskette to install 386bsd
on the drive, then restored the cableing, rebooted 386bsd system from
the real drive 0. This allowed me to disklabel drive 1 with no problem
(since it already had an existing label, from the install program).
This leaves me with the unanswered question: How does one successfully
disklabel a freshly low-level formatted ESDI disk without resorting to
these contortions?
Thanks,
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