From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Mar 11 21:05:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA15737 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:05:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from blue.thrunet.net (ns2.thrunet.net [206.98.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA15728 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:05:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by blue.thrunet.net (950511.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH526/940406.SGI.AUTO) for id XAA21934; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 23:00:28 -0600 Received: from windozer.thrunet.net(206.98.23.97) by blue.thrunet.net via smap (g3.0.1) id sma021932; Tue, 11 Mar 97 23:00:07 -0600 Received: by windozer.thrunet.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BC2E6D.679D3440@windozer.thrunet.net>; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:41:48 -0600 Message-ID: <01BC2E6D.679D3440@windozer.thrunet.net> From: "Robert J. Strickler" To: "'isp@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: howto install 9G ST410800W? summary Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:41:43 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "The Complete FreeBSD" book pg 182 had left out the invocation line when documented the issuing of the "newfs" on page 182 Additionally we had to do a MAKEDEV sd0s4 Starting over we used dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0 count=100 to wipe the current partition We used fdisk and changed the BIOS parameters to 1024c 63h 32s accepting the defaults that it generated.and wrote the partition. used disklabel -R -r sd0 seagate news@nns1:{12} disklabel -R -r sd0 label.st4108 partition c: partition extends past end of unit partition h: partition extends past end of unit --------- label.st4108 ------- # /dev/rsd0c: type: SCSI disk: seagate9G label: NewsAlt flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 133 tracks/cylinder: 27 sectors/cylinder: 3591 cylinders: 4925 sectors/unit: 17689265 rpm: 5400 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 17689265 1 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 4925*) h: 17689263 3 4.2BSD 512 63488 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 4925*) # --------------------------------------- using news /dev/rsd0s4h news@nns1:{14} newfs /dev/rsd0s4h newfs: /dev/rsd0s4h: Invalid argument Any suggestions