Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 11:50:41 -0500 From: Matthew Z Stout <matt@nexus.xanadu2.net> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <XFMail.960422115040.matt@nexus.xanadu2.net>
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I think the last mail got missent. I am trying to install
a new hard drive on a FreeBSD 2.1 system and am
metting with stiff resistance. I want to use this 2.2
gig SCSI-2 for a small newsfeed. I have fdisk'ed
the drive several times now and it seems to work,
but when I try to do newfs it returns two errors:
not a character-special device
and
`1' partition is not available
First off, this should not have to be a character
device anyway should it? I thought it needed to be
a block device? I have tried I tried looking for a
command line option to tell it to expect a block device
but there was none to be found. Also I cannot find an
option to set the inode size down to 2k. If someone
could give me. in order, the procedure and options to
prepare and mount this hard drive, it would be greatly
appreciated.
Matthew ZS
matt@xanadu2.net
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