From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 6 9:54:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salseiros.melim.com.br (salseiros.melim.com.br [200.215.110.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB5E537B71A for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 09:54:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ronan@melim.com.br) Received: from fazendinha (fazendinha.melim.com.br [192.168.168.42]) by salseiros.melim.com.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA95756 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:47:34 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from ronan@melim.com.br) Message-ID: <037101c0a666$8cbc4e80$2aa8a8c0@melim.com.br> From: "Ronan Lucio" To: References: <200103021348.AA1468662404@stmail.pace.edu> Subject: Re: Error formating a second hd Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:54:53 -0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Jonathan, > What FreeBSD version are you using? Iīm tried this with the versions 3.4-RELEASE and 4.1-RELEASE > What type of hard drive are you trying to format? Iīm have FreeBSD intalled in a IDE HD and trying to format another IDE HD > Has FreeBSD/Linux ever been installed on that hard drive before? Yes, the first time had a FreeBSD 3.4 formatation, after the problem I formated with MS-DOS FAT32 and trying to format with FreeBSD 4.1 again > What is the exact error message? Error mounting /dev/wd2s1e on /hd2 : Invalid argument I got to format that HD creating a swap partition first, but I think it isnīt necessary, but, if I donīt creating a swap partition, the formatation donīt work. [ ]īs Ronan Lucio > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: "Ronan Lucio" > Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:29:33 -0300 > > >Hi all, > > > >I usually have a problem formating a second HD with FreeBSD. > > > >I execute /stand/sysinstall > >Configure - Fdisk - Create slice - w (write) > >Configure - Label - Create partition /hd2 - w (write) > > > >so, appears the follow error: > >Error mounting /dev/wd2s1e on /hd2 : Invalid argument > > > >Did somebody ever had this problem? > >I had this problem with different versions of FreeBSD in > >different HDs. > > > >Thankīs > >[ ]īs > > > >Ronan Lucio > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Jonathan M. Slivko > Global IRC Operator, AsylumNet IRC Network > Pager: (917) 388-5304 (24/7) > Phone: (212) 663-1109 (6PM-12PM EST) > > "Microsoft, is that some kind of toilet paper?" > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message