YA up 2.4 (warning on labelit )

Mark Zenier markz at ssc.UUCP
Wed Dec 14 17:43:37 AEST 1988


A warning for my procedure for partitioning a second disk drive 
in <1574 at ssc.UUCP>.

If after executing labelit, a couple of lines of cryptic messages
do not appear,  and any programs you try to execute are not found,
Ctrl-alt-delete immediately.

I assume the superblock is stepped on, because the root filesystem sure
will be.

This has happened to me using both
 labelit /dev/rdsk/1s2 x2 1s2  (as run in the installation script)
and
 labelit /dev/dsk/1s2 x2 1s2  (as documented in the release notes)

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

The only safe place to run labelit from is a write protected boot floppy.

Mark Zenier    uunet!nwnexus!pilchuck!ssc!markz    markz at ssc.uucp
                      uw-beaver!tikal!



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