Alpha and labels stuff

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 09:15:43AM +0200, Pierrick Brossin wrote:


Alphas do not use slices like x86. Slices are a PeeCee thing only.
You should directly create a BSD disklabel/partitions.

Wilko

> 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
> 
> --
> Pierrick Brossin
> IT Employee - Quark Media House Switzerland
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