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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!globe.indirect.com!fnf From: fnf@fishpond (Fred Fish) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ZIP drive in FreeBSD Date: 30 Aug 1995 17:46:48 GMT Organization: Amiga Library Services Lines: 25 Message-ID: <422869$cg3@globe.indirect.com> References: <41pc3c$15j@hathor.mch.sni.de> <41q5lm$p2q@reason.cdrom.com> <41qkia$1l5@hathor.mch.sni.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: fishpond.amigalib.com In article <41qkia$1l5@hathor.mch.sni.de>, Hans Wander <awan@hathor.mch.sni.de> wrote: >whenever I try to write a label, the result is: >disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Operation not supported by device > >it's very frustrating. Yes! I just ran into this myself yesterday when trying to install a second drive on an existing FreeBSD 2.0.5 system. I ended up having to reinstall the entire system and have it partition and label both drives during the install. This wasn't too bad since I hadn't really done anything to the system yet after installing it originally. I suppose it might work to yank off the system disk you want to preserve, temporarily replace it with a small drive that you don't care about what gets written to it, do a minimal install to get your 2nd drive set up correctly, and then swap the normal system disk back and fix up the things by hand that need doing (edit fstab, make device files?, etc). -Fred -- ============================================================================= Amiga Library Services * 610 N. Alma School Rd, #18 * Chandler, Az 85224-3687 FAX: (602) 491-0048 Voice: (800) 804-0833 Email: orders@amigalib.com =============================================================================