Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:41:43 -0600 From: "Robert J. Strickler" <rstrickler@thrunet.net> To: "'isp@freebsd.org'" <isp@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: howto install 9G ST410800W? summary Message-ID: <01BC2E6D.679D3440@windozer.thrunet.net>
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"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
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