[Sunhelp] PC disk in Sun

[Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)]

what about newfs? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	ward at zilla.nu [SMTP:ward at zilla.nu]
> Sent:	Monday, May 22, 2000 2:37 PM
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	Re: [Sunhelp] PC disk in Sun
> 
> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:08:40PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> > When you run "format", you need to go into "partition" and then tell it
> > to label the disk - just formatting the disk wont do this.
> 
> Unfortunately, I've tried that as well.  In fact, just using the
> format/verify
> deal creates a basic partition set, but label still doesn't write it.
> Alas.  I
> can only assume that maybe the old DOS/Win part info is in the way.  I'll
> try to
> find sfdisk and/or try just using dd to whack it.  In fact, I'd like to dd
> an
> existing disk's part info anyway, so that's not a bad idea.
> 
> Thanks for everything, folks!
> 
> Reagen
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