Partitioning problem with Suse 7.2

[Άγγελος Οικονομόπουλος]

On Saturday 20 July 2002 11:45, Panagiotis Panos wrote:
[snip]
> Ta partitions a: b: c: einai opws leitourgoun sto OpenBSD. Kai to mege6os
> pou eixa kanei htan auto pou fainetai parapanw. Prepei epishs na grapsw
> oti otan dhmiourgousa to partition a: tou eixa pei na dhmiourgh6ei apo
> ton sector 1 (kai oxi ton 63, giati de mou bootare). To OpenBSD to eixa
> 3anasthsei se allo mhxanhma ston idio disko (tote htan /dev/hdb) kai
> leitourgouse kanonika. Meta de bootare kai 3anaekana egkatastash. Opou me
> talaipwrhse kai apofasisa na dwsw to xwro sto Linux.
>
> >to openbsd disklabel einai enas allos, ane3arthtos tropos perigrafhs twn
> >katatmhsewn kai prepei na prosexeis na ton kratas se sumfwnia me to mbr
> > kai ta extended partition records ektos an 3ereis *_polu_* kala ti
> > kaneis. auto pou sunistw gia thn apegkatastash tou openbsd einai ena dd
> > if=/dev/zero
>
> of=... (please tell me more)

koita kalutera sto telos tou mail gia to pws 8a kaneis zero fill

> to OpenBSD xrhsimopoiei A6 partition

a, a9 egrapsa? (to netbsd trexei pantou. akoma kai sto egkefalo mou, parolo 
pou ekei ta resources einai kapws periorismena)

>
> >panw sthn disklabel (pou brisketai ston deutero sector ths a9
> > partition). ek twn usterwn, gia na eisai pragmatika sigouros, kane kai
> > ena zero fill sto disko :)
>
> Pws kanw zero fill sto disko. Lypamai poy den 3erw kai se talaipwrw. Den
> eimai ths plhroforikhs. Interior Designer eimai. Epishs sto man tou fdisk
> diavasa oti to sfdisk einai gia "hackers" kai oti

> exei ta ligotera bugs.
> Mallon gia auto den trexei sto rescue Suse me boot apo CD. Prepei na

nod

> psa3w na to brw sto CD.
>
> >sto meta3u, mporeis na steileis to output tou sfdisk -v /dev/hda ka8ws
> > kai thn ekdosh tou sfdisk & th dianomh apo thn opoia proerxetai (_oles_
> > oi dianomes plhn ths debian to patcharoun mexri ahdias)?
>
> Me ekkinish apo disko Redhat 6.1 me sfdisk 3.07
> sfdisk -l /dev/hda

koita 5 grammes pio panw, dipla sth le3h 'sfdisk'

>  		start   end   	#cyls	blocks	    id
>  /dev/hda1	1	191	191-	 770080+    b    Win95 Fat32
>  /dev/hda2	192	782	591	2382912     5	Extended
>  /dev/hda5	192	740     	549-	2213536+   83	Ext2
>  /dev/hda6	741	773	 33- 	 133024+    82	Swap
>  /dev/hda7         774	782	   9-	  36256+    83	Ext2
>
> fdisk
> v	248 unallocated sectors
>
> Me fdisk OpenBSD 2.8 geometry 781/128/63 6297984 sectors
> 		sect.	start		end
> *0	0B	63	63		1540161
> 1	05	63	1540224	4765824
>
> Mia rizikh lysh na sbhstoun ta panta na dior6w6oun ola kai na ginei o
> diskos san kainourgios (san apo to ergostasio) yparxei?

nai. eite katebazeis apo to site tou kataskeuasth tou diskou sou mia 
bootable diskette pou suni8ws exei kai to antistoixo utility (me ta onomata 
zero-fill/low-level format/don't touch this) (endedeigmeno), eite ftiaxneis 
mia disketta me kapoia grhgorh ekdoxh ths dd (sdd, ...) (den nomizw oti 8a 
to kaneis eukola xwris na exeis kapio unix sto disko), eite mpoutareis to 
suse cd kai dineis dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 kai feugeis gia ena 
pentahmero sto nhsi ths areskeias sou mexri na teleiwsei.

an kapoios skeftetai na petaxtei kai na pei "ma ti les, h lush einai  ...." 
as skeftei oti mia adespoth openbsd disklabel sto disko 8elei sbhsimo, 
giati kapote 8a 3anaemfanistei kai 8a se dagkwsei kai den 8a exeis idea pws 
egine.
kai mia pou den mporw na apobalw thn entupwsh oti o original poster 8a 
duskoleutei na brei ton sector pou brisketai h disklabel me odhgies e3' 
apostasews ...

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