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Date:      Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:42:54 -0500 (EST)
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
To:        gsfgf@hotmail.com (Jeff Jeter)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New Disk on IDE card
Message-ID:  <200112250342.fBP3gsj05646@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <OE61XZZTHfyQgeDKvPE000074db@hotmail.com> from "Jeff Jeter" at Dec 24, 2001 06:29:06 AM

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> 
> > Well, what I'd recommend since (for whatever reason) sysinstall isn't
> > newfs'ing the drive that you try doing that yourself.
> >
>  How do i do it manually?  I tried newfs, but it said i need a disklabel.
> when i run disklabel /dev/ad5(s1)(e) auto.  it return an error: "auto:
> requires the use of canonical disk name"
> 
> what's that?  i could not find disktypes other than auto.

It wants you to skip the /dev/ path part and just use the ad5 under 
those circumstances.   It probably could figure it out itself, but apparently
didn't get written that way.

////jerry

> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff Jeter
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