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Date:      Tue, 1 Jul 2003 08:20:11 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: should fdisk -BI still work?
Message-ID:  <20030701152011.GA14768@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030701091548.GA63084@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
References:  <20030701091548.GA63084@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>

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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:15:49AM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> Should "fdisk -BI ad0" still work on current? I have a script that I use
> to prepare flash disks that have worked for a long time on older versions
> of FreeBSD, but it seems a little broken on -current. It actually started
> with the one from Warner's site people.../~imp/diskprep.pl and tweaked it
> over time to keep it running.
>=20
> On current I get an error when doing "fdisk -BI ad0":
>=20
> fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
>=20
> So how is one supposed to create a FreeBSD slice nowadays from a script?

I'm not using -BI, but I am using -I in a version of diskprep.   Are you
sure you don't have any slices (or partitions inside those slices) open?
I remember getting all sorts of weird errors when I forgot about that
while developing my new scripts.

-- Brooks

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