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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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