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From: wiserner@sunbayer8.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Bernd Wiserner)
Subject: Re: [Q] Install NetBSD on ARLL
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John Vinopal (banshee@boing.resort.com) wrote:
: Trouble is that one failed disklabel call means the hd MUST be 
: low level formatted again.  Otherwise okay.
Not. fdisk /mbr does what you want. Or under *BSD cat /what_ever_big_file > /dev/wd0c
B.Wiserner
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