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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:36:09 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
To:        Rod Person <roddierod@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems creating a filesystem on a new SCSI drive.
Message-ID:  <20011213103608.D270@gohan.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011212203419.782fd0f5.roddierod@yahoo.com>; from roddierod@yahoo.com on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:34:19PM -0500
References:  <20011210230713.08e9608c.roddierod@yahoo.com> <20011211171009.E232@gohan.cjclark.org> <20011212203419.782fd0f5.roddierod@yahoo.com>

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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:34:19PM -0500, Rod Person wrote:
> It was Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:10:09 -0800 when I read this:
> > > dd if=/dev/zero of /dev/rda1 bs=1k count=1
> > > disklabel -Brw da1 auto
> > 
> > Why are you making it bootable?
> 
> Not sure. I was reading the handbook and this was the specific example given for adding a 2nd scsi drive. I just assumed there was some reason.

Only if you can and possibly want to boot it.

> > > disklable -e da1 # I didn't edit just :q out of vi
> > 
> > Was there a 'e' partition at this point?
> 
> No there was no e partition at this point. In fact there seemed to be no partitions created.

Right, just the 'c' partition. You'll need to add 'e' manually (a
4.2BSD-type partition using the whole drive) with the editor and all
will be fine.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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