Error on install yet live cd works fine.
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Never seen that but it sure is going an about partitions.
I wounder if a disk wipe would fix that?Well I wiped the drive on my windows netbook. Deleted the partition and still got the same error.
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Did you see this when your searched the forums?
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=25112.0
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@KOM:
Did you see this when your searched the forums?
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=25112.0
No I didn't find this one on my (so far 5 hours searching)
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@KOM:
Did you see this when your searched the forums?
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=25112.0
No I didn't find this one on my (so far 5 hours searching)
Thanks ill have a lookHi I did what jimp said
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=8k count=16
fdisk -I ad0
but the fdisk part gives me this error
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found.
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If you have existing GPT partitions then you will have to zero out either the entire disk or at least the beginning and end.
Run fdisk by itself and see your sector count (let's call it sector_count). It will be shown on a line that looks like this:
# fdisk
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5), (FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 83875302 (40954 Meg), flag 80 (active)size is the same as sector_count
Now run the dd commands like this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1M count=2
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1M skip=(sector_count - 2)
To use the fdisk example above, to wipe the end of the disk try:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1M skip=83875300
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@KOM:
If you have existing GPT partitions then you will have to zero out either the entire disk or at least the beginning and end.
Run fdisk by itself and see your sector count (let's call it sector_count). It will be shown on a line that looks like this:
# fdisk
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5), (FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 83875302 (40954 Meg), flag 80 (active)size is the same as sector_count
Now run the dd commands like this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1M count=2
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1M skip=(sector_count - 2)
To use the fdisk example above, to wipe the end of the disk try:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1M skip=83875300
Many many thanks
I'm stuck on the very first part
just "fdisk" gives me this
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Well, you can do one of four things:
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Wipe the entire disk. This can take some time if the disk is big.
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Use the gpart command from pfSense Shell to list and remove any GPT partitions
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Download a partition manager like GParted (http://gparted.org/) and boot from it to wipe your disk
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Based on the size of your disk, take an educated guess as to how many sectors it has (use my example above where a 40 GB hard disk has 83875302 sectors), and then tailor your dd command to use skip=(guessed_sectors - 2)
I'd go with #2
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@KOM:
Well, you can do one of four things:
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Wipe the entire disk. This can take some time if the disk is big.
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Use the gpart command from pfSense Shell to list and remove any GPT partitions
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Download a partition manager like GParted (http://gparted.org/) and boot from it to wipe your disk
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Based on the size of your disk, take an educated guess as to how many sectors it has (use my example above where a 40 GB hard disk has 83875302 sectors), and then tailor your dd command to use skip=(guessed_sectors - 2)
I'd go with #2
its 320GB (an old laptop hdd)
I'm mega new to linux based commands so would 2 be hard for me? -
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edit that I guess one of them commands worked it installed perfect this time! cheers for all the help!
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Go to pfSense Shell, run gpart and follow the help to figure out how to list any GPT partitions and remove them.
Doing a dd on an entire 320 GB disk will take awhile.
You could try the following:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1M count=2
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1M skip=671002414
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Glad to hear you got it working.
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@KOM:
Glad to hear you got it working.
Thanks for the help KOM next step is to see if I can get a wifi running :) using this router!
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So…. I wonder if wiping the drive would help (-;
