From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 14 7:30:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from math.udel.edu (math.udel.edu [128.175.16.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1A84150C5 for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 07:30:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from schwenk@math.udel.edu) Received: from math.udel.edu (sisyphus.math.udel.edu [128.175.16.167]) by math.udel.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA18183; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:30:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3856628A.4954F9EE@math.udel.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:30:18 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk Organization: University of Delaware X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en, fr, de, ko MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Sandiford Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help adding new drive - getting newfs error References: <001301bf45bd$2a2d98b0$03a06bcf@interlinks.net> <38559F55.B4E071F6@voicenet.com> <006c01bf4645$fb24bd80$03a06bcf@interlinks.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Do you have /dev/wd2s1e in existence? I don't know what version of FreeBSD you are using, but I do remember having this kind of difficulty with earlier versions of 3.x. If you don't have all of the device entries in the /dev directory for wd2, then this would cause problems. Also, in another window/virtual console, you could check to see if /newdisk is getting created by sysinstall, and if not, make it yourself and try again. Bill Sandiford wrote: > I have tried using the /stand/sysinstall method...partition gets created > fine but when I choose W to write changes in the Label editors it asks me to > confirm...i say yes and it comes back saying... > > Error mounting /dev/wd2s1e on /newdisk : Invalid Argument > > I am really stuck here... > > Help > -- PETER SCHWENK | UNIX System Administrator Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 <-NEW!!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message