From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 11:20:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79D0C37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:20:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tatooine.compnor.net (007.jamesp.adsl.st.staffnet.com [198.79.85.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD3A43F3F for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:20:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamesp@uversa.com) Received: from there (004.jamesp.adsl.st.staffnet.com [198.79.85.195]) by tatooine.compnor.net (8.12.9/8.8.7) with SMTP id h3LIK5iY015802; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:20:05 -0400 Message-Id: <200304211820.h3LIK5iY015802@tatooine.compnor.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: James Pancoast To: "Elliot Finley" , Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:19:59 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: <200304211812.h3LIC3iY015231@tatooine.compnor.net> <058801c30832$36e57420$695ad70a@elliotdevelop> In-Reply-To: <058801c30832$36e57420$695ad70a@elliotdevelop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Problem formatting new hard drive. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jamesp@uversa.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:20:14 -0000 kern_securelevel="2" kern_securelevel_enable="YES" Is that it? On Monday 21 April 2003 14:17, Elliot Finley wrote: > What is your securitylevel set to in rc.conf? > > Elliot > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Pancoast" > To: > Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 12:11 PM > Subject: Problem formatting new hard drive. > > > I'm new to FreeBSD (I installed it on a system this weekend). I've been > > trying to add a new Hard drive, following the directions at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/x66.ht >m l > > > Going through sysinstall didn't work, so I tried the command line > > (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad2 count=2). However, when I run that command > > (as > > > root), I get "Operation not permitted". Anyone have an idea what I'm > > doing > > > wrong? > > > > The drive used to be in a Linux system, and an fdisk /dev/ad2 gives this: > > ******* Working on device /dev/ad2 ******* > > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > > cylinders=25232 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > > cylinders=25232 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > > > Media sector size is 512 > > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > > Information from DOS bootblock is: > > The data for partition 1 is: > > sysid 131 (0x83),(Linux native) > > start 63, size 25433793 (12418 Meg), flag 0 > > beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; > > end: cyl 1023/ head 15/ sector 63 > > The data for partition 2 is: > > > > The data for partition 3 is: > > > > The data for partition 4 is: > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -- > > James Pancoast > > jamesp@uversa.com > > www.uversa.com > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- James Pancoast jamesp@uversa.com www.uversa.com