From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 13:00:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA02429 for current-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:00:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA02409 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:00:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA07620; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 22:00:22 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA24233; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:31:08 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 21:31:08 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: kingram@ipro.com (Ken Ingram) Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping References: <199701101925.LAA25142@ipro.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ken Ingram wrote: > When I mkdir /articles and run mount /dev/rwd2s1e /articles I get the error: > > '/dev/rwd2s1e on /articles: Block device required' mount /dev/wd2s1e /articles > I have to admit that before I created all this hubub I looked over > the man pages for disklabel,mount,fstab,newfs and anything related > without getting a good idea of what works. It seems to be a > trial/error sort of thing. The problem is that neither the man pages nor the handbook are really targeted to this kind of questions. They all silently assume that you basically know how unix filesystems work, and mostly mention the hairy details only (man page), or the FreeBSD specifics (handbook). People who are totally unfamiliar with the unix way of going are better off by reading some literature. I think you would get a good start by buying Walnut Creek's CD-ROM, since it is accompanied by Greg Lehey's ``Installing and Running FreeBSD'', which has got some good press in the past. I think you can also order that book separately from them. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)