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Date:      Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:47:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Alex <panadol@hotkey.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problams installing new hdd in freebsd 2.2.2 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904271246370.2463-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990427175907.0091a570@pop.hotkey.net.au>

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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Alex wrote:

> hi, i am experincing problams when trying to install a new hard drive in to
> my system 
> all is ok untill i go to label the drive using the stand/sysinstall menu i
> can slecect and set my partition sizes and mount points but when i i run W
> to write these options to the disk i get a error about an invalid argument
> while mounting the drive '
> then if i go to mount the drive my self i get an error about the drive not
> being formated so to speak this will be because it has not been newfs'ed
> but im am unsure on how i can do this compleat process from the command
> line (partitioning the drive and newfsing it...)
> 
> the version of FreeBSD is 2.2.2 quite old but there has been to much system
> configuration to update because of the age now i belive i will has trouble
> updating smoothly is this also the case?

See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/.  I wrote it against
2.2.5, but I think it works for any 2.2.X release.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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