From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 29 12:16:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA29792 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 12:16:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from max.phys.uu.nl (max.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29784 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 12:16:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from A.R.Flobbe@phys.uu.nl) Received: from ruunat.phys.uu.nl (ruunat.phys.uu.nl [131.211.32.69]) by max.phys.uu.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7/hjm) with ESMTP id VAA09339 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 21:15:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (flobbe@localhost) by ruunat.phys.uu.nl (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA26014 for ; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 21:15:54 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: ruunat.phys.uu.nl: flobbe owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 21:15:54 +0100 (MET) From: Sander Flobbe To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Need an 'a' partition on both drives, possible? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have two IDE disks (/dev/wd0 and /dev/wd1) and I want both of them to contain an 'a' partition. Is that possible? This is what I do: * Start from 2.2.7-RELEASE floppy, * choose post-install * label /dev/wd1 (compat. mode, entire disk) * press W for write * partition /dev/wd1 (with a '/' partition and some others) * press W for write Then the following error (Alt-F2) occurs: newfs: /dev/rwd1s1a: `a' partition is unavailable There is no help on making Compatibility Mode Disks from the prompt (I love CLI) in the tutorials/handbook/faq. The reason I want both drives to have an 'a' partition is because I want to be able to startup FreeBSD from wd0 or from wd1, both with their own '/' partition. (I don't need other OS's) I'd appreciate any help/hint/suggestion very much! (no help in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc) S. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message