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Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:39:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: starting up the 3rd SCSI disk
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Chuck Robey wrote:

> I reformatted the 4.3G SCSI disk, and then used the FreeBSD fdisk
> program to stick a partition table in it.  I took the defaults for all,
> which set partition 4 as the whole disk, and set it to use FreeBSD.  OK.
> 
> When I did that, it refused to disklabel, telling me there was no space.
> If I don't do that, it does the disklabel, but always complains that the
> partition table is bad (NO MAGIC).  Given a choice, I'd have no
> partition table, but I can't see what I'm doing wrong.  I'd thought that
> the correct procedure was:
> 
> 1) scsiformat the disk
> 2) disklabel the disk, using the auto setup.
> 3) go back, disklabel using -e -r, so I could manually edit in the b
>    (swap) and e partitions.
> 4) newfs the e partition
> 5) stick both partitions in /etc/fstab
> 6) begin file operations.
> 
> What did I miss, or what did I mess up, any guesses?

I think that's it, unless you flubbed the disklabel operation.  Try using
sysinstall and see http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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