Re: Anyone working on an automated install?

Julian Yon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID <20121027202940.3b6d887b@numenor>
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012 08:38:11 +0100
David Laight <[email protected]> wrote:

> # Zap existing mbr, should also hide any label
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d count=1
> 
> # Zap early part of disk, things can get confused
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d bs=1m count=2
> [...]
> The two zaps from /dev/zero are probably a good idea anyway (depending
> on what the dsk was used for before).

The first looks kind of redundant. Am I missing something?

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