On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:15:49AM +0200, John Hay wrote: > Hi, > > Should "fdisk -BI ad0" still work on current? I have a script that I use > to prepare flash disks that have worked for a long time on older versions > of FreeBSD, but it seems a little broken on -current. It actually started > with the one from Warner's site people.../~imp/diskprep.pl and tweaked it > over time to keep it running. > > On current I get an error when doing "fdisk -BI ad0": > > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found > > So how is one supposed to create a FreeBSD slice nowadays from a script?
I'm not using -BI, but I am using -I in a version of diskprep. Are you sure you don't have any slices (or partitions inside those slices) open? I remember getting all sorts of weird errors when I forgot about that while developing my new scripts. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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