From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 16:58:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA10644 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 16:58:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from admin.cyberenet.net (root@admin.cyberenet.net [204.213.252.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA10637 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 16:58:28 -0700 (PDT) From: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Received: from ux1.cyberenet.net by admin.cyberenet.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #7) id m0vAPYR-000O7lC; Mon, 7 Oct 96 19:57 EDT Received: from wb2oyc.ppp.cyberenet.net by ux1.cyberenet.net with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #8) id m0vAPYQ-0006FJC; Mon, 7 Oct 96 19:57 EDT Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.4 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 23:39:02 -0400 (EDT) To: "Sys. Admin" Subject: RE: disk Cc: questions@FREEBSD.ORG Sender: owner-questions@FREEBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 07-Oct-96 "Sys. Admin" wrote: >then tells me that partition '1' is not available and then it tells me >that /dev/wd1sx (where x is 1-4) is not a character-special device. >What am I doing wrong or better yet, how can I get this second drive up >with 2 swaps and 2 filesystem partitions up? > Richard, There are some cautions about using sysinstall to do this kind of thing and I think you may have found why. Basically, you want to do the same things, but from a command prompt using fdisk and disklabel. Not from sysinstall; I think. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD myself, but I think thats the idea. Paul ---------------------------------- E-Mail: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net Date: 10/07/96 Time: 23:39:02 This message was sent by XF-Mail ----------------------------------