From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 9 07:52:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA05855 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 07:52:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipro.com (farad.ipro.com [204.179.121.96]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA05835; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 07:52:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipro.ipro.com by ipro.com (8.7.4/SMI-SVR4) id HAA11473; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 07:50:25 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199701091550.HAA11473@ipro.com> X-Sender: kingram@ipro.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 07:57:49 -0800 To: Wolfgang Helbig From: Ken Ingram Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping Cc: questions@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The problem is I can't get disklabel to recognize the drive. I'm in a catch-22. I need to run newfs to format(?) the drive but it won't do it because it doesn't have a disklabel. Where do I begin? Disklabel gets me: #disklabel -r -w wd2 auto disklabel: /dev/rwd2c: Undefined error: 0 The sysinstall seems to prep the drive perfectly, however it only preps the already installed system. I need to know the command-line operations to appropriately configure the new drive. Can you describe the steps I need to take and what commands I need to use? At 10:00 AM 1/9/97 +0100, Wolfgang Helbig wrote: >> >> newfs needs disklabel from what I can gather from the man pages. >> Do I need to add any info to Disktab? The drive is the exact same model >> as the first one, yet the first drive has no entry in /etc/disktab. > >Try the -auto flag of disklabel(). If that works you won't need an entry >in /etc/disktab. > >Wolfgang Helbig > > > --Ken ________________________________________________________________________ Ken Ingram kingram@ipro.com | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POST NO BILLS