From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 21 17:19:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA17015 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 17:19:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA16909 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 17:19:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id RAA16883; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 17:19:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA01976; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 17:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199609220018.RAA01976@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: Using disklabel In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 21 Sep 96 19:06:06 -0400. Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 17:18:15 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Help! I need to set up 2 partitions (only 2) on a st42100N seagate scsi >disk, size 1812MB. I tried to set up partitions e: and f:, but disklabel >kept on telling me (after a frustrating editing session when it kept on >getting the default scsi sizes wrong) that my partition names were >invalid, and that I had an unused partition d. [...] >Here are my entries to disklabel, that failed: > a: 0 0 unused 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 0*) > d: 0 0 unused 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 0*) > c: 3711990 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 1 -1811*) > e: 1855995 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 1 -906*) > f: 1855995 1855995 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 907 -1811*) >/tmp/EdDk.a003023: 26 lines, 753 characters. >line 25: bad partition name >line 26: bad partition name You left off the most important part. What does it say for number of partitions immediately before the "a:" line? For partitions through "f", you'll need that to say at least "6 partitions". ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------