From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 10:35:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC49237B400; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:35:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g24IZXK01268; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:35:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA21576; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:35:33 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C83BE6A.C8959ABA@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 12:35:22 -0600 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk / disklabel References: <3C7FD9A5.DC70E24E@centtech.com> <20020302031141.GA21959@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks.. Turns out, that the maker of the compact flash media I was using didn't quite follow the specs, so occaisionally it did not write the data to the disk completely - something you need when building a filesystems. BAH! These compact flash cards (Hitachi's) are going back, and I'll order 30 of something else. Eric Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2002-03-01 13:42, Eric Anderson wrote: > > ok, I'm about to crack my head open.. how the heck to I do the equivalent of the > > sysinstall fdisk/disklabel for a new disk? I have a small (64mb) compact flash > > card I need to set up as a bootable freebsd partition, and can't get it going > > for the life of me.. No, it isn't the compact flash, I have done tons of these > > before, and struggled with each one, but for some reason, I can't remember the > > steps I took to do it. Does anyone have a cookbook or anything that could > > help? I've been reading disklabel and fdisk man pages all day, and googling for > > hints too.. > > HELP! > > There is a "cookbook" online :) > Find it at: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/ > > I hope this helps. > > Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project > keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQE8gELt1g+UGjGGA7YRAt/XAJ9dVsqRryo3EvMOCeclxLKXw7TOdACgxK7d > Spw9dO2soaL2kDh5650ZFdU= > =+Qn0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is probably not for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message