The original question is at the bottom.
Thanks to all that gave an answer - some of them very quick:
Kurt Ludwig, Martin Petder, Thomas Leitner, Octave Orgeron,
Alex Harkema, Stephen Dowdy, Christopher (family name was
missing, sorry!), Jeffrey Hummel, David Monroe and, as usual,
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn.
There are different workarounds:
1) boot linux and use dd to clean the partition table:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rrz0c bs=1024k count=5
2) boot tru64compaq from the cd and clean the partition
table (similar):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk/dsk0c bs=1024k count=5
3) the console firmware should have some read-write test
that can do that (I didn't try it).
4) boot tru64compaq and use scu to clean the partition table
In my case, I cannot boot linux (there was a linux installation
on my disk, but it was buggy and the bootstrap hung), and using
dd under tru64compaq booted from CD gave "/dev/zero: file not found"
(I don't know why, I didn't looked into it).
The solution I used:
5) Switch to the ARC console (setting os_type = nt and giving an "init")
and select "Hard disk setup" that allows you to create DOS partitions
and, after that, to delete them, leaving the disk clean. Then return to
SRM console (CMOS setup -> extended...). That's all.
Great!
Thank you again.
Alessandro
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Alessandro Brunengo wrote:
> Hi,
> here is a problem - I'm sure - somebody has already solved.
> I bought a DS10 with Tru64Compaq license but by a mistake the machine
> arrived with Linux already installed.
> When I tried to install Tru64Compaq V5, I got an error in reconfiguring
> disk partitioning, and then the installation failed.
> Also at the shell prompt I wasn't able to initialize the label
> (disklabel -wr and disklabel -z had no effect).
> Somebody has suggestions?
> Thank in advance.
>
> Alessandro
>
>
>
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Alessandro Brunengo
System and Network Administrator
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Via Dodecaneso, 33
16146 - Genova - ITALY
tel. +39-010-3536317
fax. +39-010-310461
Received on Thu Apr 19 2001 - 17:37:48 NZST