Alpha and labels stuff

[Pierrick Brossin]

Hi!

I'm new to Alpha. I just received an EV56 (on PC164) with 256 Mb RAM.
Since I was not able to find any SCSI card which work on the installed SRM
(no update available) I decided to use an IDE HD and an IDE CD-ROM drive.
I'm having problems with IDE2 (maybe it's just something like I have to
enable it but I didn't go further into that) so I'm using IDE1.
On Master I have a 3.4 Gb HD and on Slave I have the CD-ROM drive.
When booting the system, I can see dqa0 and dqa1 through "show dev".

So I downloaded FBSD 5.1-R, burnt it and booted it on my alpha (boot dqa1).
The installation process starts successfully and I can see it detects both
the HD and the CDROM (SCROLL-LOCK -> UP).

So I choose to start the installation just like I did for many x86 machines
but when I come to create the labels in the "FreeBSD Disklabel Editor" it says:

"You can only do this in a master partition (see top of screen)"

Quite the same thing if I push "A".
Under x86 you have to fdisk to create a slice and then you can create the
labels. Someone told me Alphas don't use slices. So I believe the guy (who is
actually a kernel hacker hehe so Hi if you're on this list :D).

The problem is that there's nothing at the top of the screen. I know I should
see 3.4Gb but it's not there!

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

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Pierrick Brossin
IT Employee - Quark Media House Switzerland
Mail: pbrossin_AT_swissgeeks(dot)com
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