From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Aug 18 20:53: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 900C537B411 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 20:52:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b073.otenet.gr [195.167.121.201]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7J3qrb28368 for ; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 06:52:53 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f71BERN09519; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:14:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:14:27 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: john Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Drive Configuration Question Message-ID: <20010801141427.B6285@hades.hell.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from johng@musicman.com on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:49:54PM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: john Subject: Drive Configuration Question Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:49:54PM -0400 > I have an Adaptec raid card with two Raid-I drives I'm trying to > configure. The machine is now booting from a third IDE drive, with > FreeBSD version 4.2. > > I'm trying to address two problems: > > 1) The disk label editor will not allow me to set a mount point. I've > obviously left out a step, but I'm not sure what. > > 2) I can't mount the RAID drives, even though the label editor shows that > they have FreeBSD installed on them. I'm trying to mount da0 or some > component of it, by saying "mount da0", "mount da0s1a" or some variation > thereof. It always says "unknown special file or file system". You probably left out the newfs step that creates a valid filesystem on the device. > What should I do, where can I go for more info? Post the exact steps you've taken on -questions (if you haven't already), and mention the following three things: a) What you are trying to do. b) The exact steps you have taken so far. c) What failed and how (a copy/paste of any error messages is nice here). -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message