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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2002 03:56:26 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Beauford <beauford.2002@rogers.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Newbie Question
Message-ID:  <20020319015626.GB530@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <001d01c1cfca$b688b300$6401a8c0@p1>
References:  <20020318040016.GA4703@hades.hell.gr> <001d01c1cfca$b688b300$6401a8c0@p1>

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On 2002-03-19 20:50, Beauford wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > On 2002-03-18 22:34, Beauford wrote:
> > > I should probably be able to find this, but It is escaping me right
> > > now. I just added another drive to my existing FreeBSD box and went
> > > into /stand/sysinstall and fdisked and labelled the drive
> > > appropriately, but how do I format it and get it mounted (actually,
> > > mounting is not a problem, but what is the drive called? My first
> > > drive is ad0s1a).
> >
> > You'll find a wealth of information about this in the FreeBSD.org
> > article "Formatting Media for use with FreeBSD".  Find it online at:
> >
> >   http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/
>
> This is the site I read and is what I did, but still no go. I did it
> again and tried to manually mount the drive and get "incorrect
> superblock". I am using wd1s1e for the drive designation. So maybe my
> problem is something else. Any suggestions?

Please do *not* post your reply above the quoted text.  Also set your
mailer up so that it prepends quoted text with "> " or something similar.

Read the instructions of that page again.  It's obvious that you forgot to
run "newfs", but I wanted you to find out by yourself.

Giorgos Keramidas                       FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}  http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/

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