Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 11:37:54 -0500 From: Charlie Root <root@nexus.xanadu2.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing a hard drive... Message-ID: <199604221637.LAA06031@nexus.xanadu2.net>
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I am running FreeBSD 2.1 and am having difficulty installing a new hard drive. I have installed a new 2.2 gigcsi-2 hard drive and am trying to prepare it for use (a procedure I have not gone through very often). I have fdisk'ed the drive several times and am fairly convinced that it worked, but when I try to do newfs on the drive it returns the errors "not a character-special device" and "`1' partition is not available". Now as far as I know this does not need to be a character device anyway, it should be a block device. Right? Anyway, I need some one to go through the steps for setting this up including any command line parameters for the associated utilities. Also I am setting this up for a small newsfeed, and would like to set smaller inodes. Any assistance would be appreciated. Matthew ZS matt@xanadu2.net
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