[SunHELP] Ultra5/10 hardware question

[Shahid Shahzad-W5106C]

I tried to install Solaris 2.6 on the disk first but it didnot recognize the correct size so I installed Solaris8 but no luck with Solaris8 also??? How can I distroy and re-label the disk? Any help will appreciated.
Thanks,
Shahzad


-----Original Message-----
From: Greg [mailto:gonufer at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 4:31 PM
To: Shahid Shahzad-W5106C
Cc: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Ultra5/10 hardware question


On 12/04/01 04:12 PM, Shahid Shahzad-W5106C wrote:

> I used Solaris 8 4/01 version....


Did you previously label the disk with an older version?  If so you need 
to destroy the label before you can re-label the disk on a newer version 
of Solaris so that it's the correct size.

You originally asked about Solaris 2.6 so I suspect you may have labeled 
the disk there which limited it to 8GB.  A valid label, even if it's 
wrong and doesn't describe the entire disk, will be honored by newer 
versions of the OS.  That's why it needs to be destroyed and a new label 
written.

-greg




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