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Re: sucessful installation but the partition table is empty



Hello Nick,

Nick Holland wrote:
> > # disklabel wd0
> ...
> > #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
> >   a:  1024128        0    4.2BSD     2048 16384   328   # (Cyl.    0 - 1015)
> Here is your problem ^^^

yes, it was the problem. thank you!!

> What happened is somehow you specified an offset of 0 for the start of
> the first partition.  Block 0 just so happens to be where the

I just hit "enter" in the offset suggested by fdisk. I can't explain 
why fdisk has this behaviour, anyway now it works. :)

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