From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 24 19:42:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CDB237B419 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 19:42:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) id fBP3gsj05646; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:42:54 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200112250342.fBP3gsj05646@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: New Disk on IDE card To: gsfgf@hotmail.com (Jeff Jeter) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 22:42:54 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jeff Jeter" at Dec 24, 2001 06:29:06 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > > Well, what I'd recommend since (for whatever reason) sysinstall isn't > > newfs'ing the drive that you try doing that yourself. > > > How do i do it manually? I tried newfs, but it said i need a disklabel. > when i run disklabel /dev/ad5(s1)(e) auto. it return an error: "auto: > requires the use of canonical disk name" > > what's that? i could not find disktypes other than auto. It wants you to skip the /dev/ path part and just use the ad5 under those circumstances. It probably could figure it out itself, but apparently didn't get written that way. ////jerry > > Thanks, > Jeff Jeter > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message