Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:21:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Don Coffin <dcoffin@intermind.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation of 4gig SCSI HD under 2.1.5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961024132044.14287E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961024185203.008f4174@mail-internal.intermind.com>
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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
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