From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 13 10:36:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B42137B405 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:36:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-33qtnoj.dialup.mindspring.com ([199.174.223.19] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16EaiX-0006dm-00; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:36:26 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fBDIaAU01626; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:36:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 10:36:09 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Rod Person Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems creating a filesystem on a new SCSI drive. Message-ID: <20011213103608.D270@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011210230713.08e9608c.roddierod@yahoo.com> <20011211171009.E232@gohan.cjclark.org> <20011212203419.782fd0f5.roddierod@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011212203419.782fd0f5.roddierod@yahoo.com>; from roddierod@yahoo.com on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:34:19PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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