From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 17:56:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA20864 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 17:56:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nexus.xanadu2.net (nexus.xanadu2.net [206.242.128.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA20802 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 17:55:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 206.242.128.30 ([206.242.128.30]) by nexus.xanadu2.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA01519 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 19:54:53 -0500 Message-ID: <317EDB5A.3E79@xanadu2.net> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 19:54:34 -0600 From: "Matthew Z. Stout" X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Macintosh; I; 68K) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Need Assistance Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am having trouble preparing a 2.2 gig SCSI drive for use on my FreeBSD 2.1 system. I would like someone to briefly outline the steps needed to prepare a new hard drive from begining to end. If someone could just list the commands and parameters to use, It would be greatly appreciated. I can fill in specifics like disk geometry. Fdisk appears to do it's job but newfs keeps telling me two things: 1) sd1 is not a character-special device 2) `1' partition not available As far as I know the drive does not NEED to be a character device anyway so I am a little lost. I sent mail saturday, and again on monday, and I need some kind of brief assistance soon. Thank you again. Matthew ZS matt@xanadu2.net