From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 09:50:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA16922 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nexus.xanadu2.net (nexus.xanadu2.net [206.242.128.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA16917 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 09:50:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by nexus.xanadu2.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA06049 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 11:50:41 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 11:50:41 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.3-beta [p0] on FreeBSD Reply-To: matt@nexus.xanadu2.net Organization: TimeNet From: Matthew Z Stout To: Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I think the last mail got missent. I am trying to install a new hard drive on a FreeBSD 2.1 system and am metting with stiff resistance. I want to use this 2.2 gig SCSI-2 for a small newsfeed. I have fdisk'ed the drive several times now and it seems to work, but when I try to do newfs it returns two errors: not a character-special device and `1' partition is not available First off, this should not have to be a character device anyway should it? I thought it needed to be a block device? I have tried I tried looking for a command line option to tell it to expect a block device but there was none to be found. Also I cannot find an option to set the inode size down to 2k. If someone could give me. in order, the procedure and options to prepare and mount this hard drive, it would be greatly appreciated. Matthew ZS matt@xanadu2.net