From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 15:05:39 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id PAA29694 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:05:39 -0800 Received: from MediaCity.com (root@easy1.mediacity.com [205.216.172.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA29689 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:05:35 -0800 Received: (from brian@localhost) by MediaCity.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA02860 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:16:35 -0800 From: Brian Litzinger Message-Id: <199511292316.PAA02860@MediaCity.com> Subject: How to partition a new drive To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 15:16:35 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1001 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Generally, I partition drives with the boot diskette and the nice menu system therein. However, I'd like to bring online a drive that has recently been connected to a system that is already up and running. I quickly gave up on disklabel because it seemed too complicated given the ease with which the rest of FreeBSD is operated. I tried running /stand/sysinstall and using the W)rite options of partition and label, however, I keep getting the error Nov 29 15:28:50 foo /kernel: sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic And various other error messages from the install program. I assume this can't be all that complicated, so would some kind soul point me in the right direction. Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brian Litzinger Powered by FreeBSD http[s]://www.mpress.com speakfree.mpress.com [use -t (GSM)] videomsg.mpress.com [mpeg 1 system stream, or h.261 AV stream]