From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 13:21:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA18963 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18958 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA14315; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:21:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Don Coffin cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation of 4gig SCSI HD under 2.1.5 In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961024185203.008f4174@mail-internal.intermind.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Don Coffin wrote: > I've been wrestling with this problem for awhile now. I've stepped through > the procedure as laid-out in the FreeBSD FAQ > (http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ37.html#37), and when I go to install the new > filesystem on the drive (newfs /dev/rsd1s1) it craps out on me, complaining > about "newfs: /dev/rsd1s1: `1' partition is unavailable". The command should be newfs /dev/sd1a Use the partition name. newfs will use the disklabel to get the proper parameters. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major