1.8.x: fdisk and disklabel fails to operate disk

[Tero Mäntyvaara]

walt wrote:
> Tero Mäntyvaara wrote:
> ...
>> 	fdisk -BI da6 (system disk is da4)
>>
>> but then I get that message that drive is not configured. :-/
>> I get same result if I use disklabel to "dedicate" drive
> 
> Random ideas:  do you actually have a /dev/da6?  Does dmesg
> show a da6 during boot?

Yes, da4 and da6 are shown during boot.

> 
> I have no experience with dedicated drives -- are you sure
> that you need one?  The disklabel manpage says most newer
> machines/disks should have a regular DOS partition table
> first and then a disklabel on one slice.  I don't know why
> it says that.

I was - at first - aiming to use just a part of a disk...

> 
> Also, I seem to recall that using the -r flag with disklabel
> sometimes helps on disks with no prior disklabel.
> 
> 
> 

I thought that installer uses same tools as I in shell, so why installer
managed to make disk operation (disklabeling), but I am not able to.