From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 12:47:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 341BD14DA7 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:47:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28708; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:47:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Alex Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problams installing new hdd in freebsd 2.2.2 In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990427175907.0091a570@pop.hotkey.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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