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Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:29:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jason Lixfeld <jlixfeld@idirect.com>
To: Dan Cross <tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu>
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I tried that aswell.  I got the error:

su-2.00# newfs /dev/rwd2s1e
newfs: /dev/rwd2s1e: `e' partition is unavailable
su-2.00# 

WTF?! =)

On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Dan Cross wrote:

> I think that you forgot to newfs the partitions.  That part is
> easy to do outside of sysinstall:
> 
> > 10. (C)reated wd2s1e partition.
> 
> # newfs /dev/rwd2s1e
> # mount /dev/wd2s1e /mnt2
> 
> Should work if the fdisk information is correct.  Hope this helps!
> 
> 	- Dan C.
>