From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 18:35:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA08337 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 18:35:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bbq.websource.com.au (bbq.websource.com.au [203.12.233.198]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA08050 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 1996 18:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cheese@localhost) by bbq.websource.com.au (8.7.5/8.6.12) id LAA02126; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 11:36:35 GMT From: Mark Cheeseman Message-Id: <199609301136.LAA02126@bbq.websource.com.au> Subject: Re: Adding a second disk - what am I missing? To: vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BR (Pedro A M Vazquez) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 11:36:34 +0000 () Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199609292108.VAA07376@kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br> from "Pedro A M Vazquez" at Sep 29, 96 09:08:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24beta] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Pedro A M Vazquez wrote: > > Mark Cheeseman said: > > > > Doug White wrote: > > > > > > /dev/rsd0s1 I get around this problem). The next message is a little > > > > less helpful: "newfs: /dev/sd0s1: `1' partition is unavailable". > > > > > > You need to specify a BSD partition, ie a,d,e etc. I assume you're using > > > the entire disk and don't want to partition it, so newfs the a drive: > > > > > > newfs /dev/rsd0s1a > > > > Except that I don't seem to have an "a" partition: "newfs: /dev/rsd0s1a: No > > such file or directory" > > > > I guess there must be another step in there somewhere. Any more suggestions? > > have you run disklabel? I thought sysinstall was supposed to take care of that so I haven't tried it until now. Everything looks sensible except for the last few lines which say something like (excuse any typos - I don't have cut/paste here): 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 2031650 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 27088*) Can I just change "unused" to "freebsd"? What should I do about the 8 partitions? Change it to 1, or leave it as it is? Thanks, Mark