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From: Matthew Z Stout <matt@nexus.xanadu2.net>
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I am running FreeBSD 2.1 and am having difficulty installing
a new hard drive.  When I try and run newfs on sd1 it gives
me two messages:

     1) not a character-special device
     2) `1' partition is unavailable

Now correct me if I am wrong but this drive does not need
to be a character device anyway, instead it should be a 
block device; right?

What is the basic and simplest procedure for putting a new
hard drive into service?

Matthew ZS
matt@xanadu2.net