Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:47:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Alex <panadol@hotkey.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problams installing new hdd in freebsd 2.2.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904271246370.2463-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990427175907.0091a570@pop.hotkey.net.au>
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Alex wrote: > hi, i am experincing problams when trying to install a new hard drive in to > my system > all is ok untill i go to label the drive using the stand/sysinstall menu i > can slecect and set my partition sizes and mount points but when i i run W > to write these options to the disk i get a error about an invalid argument > while mounting the drive ' > then if i go to mount the drive my self i get an error about the drive not > being formated so to speak this will be because it has not been newfs'ed > but im am unsure on how i can do this compleat process from the command > line (partitioning the drive and newfsing it...) > > the version of FreeBSD is 2.2.2 quite old but there has been to much system > configuration to update because of the age now i belive i will has trouble > updating smoothly is this also the case? See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/. I wrote it against 2.2.5, but I think it works for any 2.2.X release. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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