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From: altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Alex Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: DISKLABEL again !
Date: 25 Jun 1993 00:42:24 GMT
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Thorsten Laux (laux@ifk-mp.uni-kiel.dbp.de) wrote:
: Disklabel doesn't work for me in any of the recently suggested formats.
: I'm trying to label a second SCSI disk on a 1542b.

: Result:
: Bootstrap doesn't leave room for disk label.

The problem is with the files in /usr/mdec.  You need to get the bootwd and
bootsd files either from your floppies, or you could anonymous ftp them from
recycle.snre.umich.edu in /pub/NetBSD.

Hope this helps....alex... 

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