> > I think I'm gun shy from my mac installs but there is a p partition on
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> > the drive that takes up the first 3515 blocks of the drive and I'm
> > thinking I have to leave that there. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> > Otherwise I did the normal install...
> 
> Yes, you need to leave it there - the SGI Volume Header takes up the first few 
> blocks of the disk.

Oh, I wanted to ask this for quite some time:

Can I create this volume header without an IRIX installation?

The disk in my O2 died, I have another SCA disk (from a Sun), wiped clean. 
And my old IRIX CDs have read errors, so I can't even install IRIX from 
scratch just to prepare the disk.

Any workarounds?


Thanks,
chakl