Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 15:39:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: starting up the 3rd SCSI disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808141538380.13156-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808141632560.363-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > I reformatted the 4.3G SCSI disk, and then used the FreeBSD fdisk > program to stick a partition table in it. I took the defaults for all, > which set partition 4 as the whole disk, and set it to use FreeBSD. OK. > > When I did that, it refused to disklabel, telling me there was no space. > If I don't do that, it does the disklabel, but always complains that the > partition table is bad (NO MAGIC). Given a choice, I'd have no > partition table, but I can't see what I'm doing wrong. I'd thought that > the correct procedure was: > > 1) scsiformat the disk > 2) disklabel the disk, using the auto setup. > 3) go back, disklabel using -e -r, so I could manually edit in the b > (swap) and e partitions. > 4) newfs the e partition > 5) stick both partitions in /etc/fstab > 6) begin file operations. > > What did I miss, or what did I mess up, any guesses? I think that's it, unless you flubbed the disklabel operation. Try using sysinstall and see http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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