installing Solaris back onto ultra after FreeBSD

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 5:46 PM -0800 2/5/09, Steve Rikli wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 05, 2009, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
>  > Format is core-dumping :)
>
>I think I've seen that before, though it may have been something other
>than a FreeBSD disk label.
>
>In any case Royce's explanation is probably still correct; what I did
>in that situation (i.e. unable to use 'format') was put the disk in
>another Ultra, 'dd' over the first few megabytes of the disk just to
>wipe out the existing label, and then try 'format' again after putting
>it back in the original machine w/Solaris boot CD etc.

I assume that he could also boot up into a FreeBSD install CD, and
use FreeBSD to 'dd' over the disk.

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