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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2 Problems Date: 10 Mar 1996 11:14:14 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4hudi6$1ca@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4hgfht$p8d@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 buckaroo@data3.com.au (Hamish MacGregor) writes: > Problem 1: > The FreeBSD machine currently has two SCSI HDs in it. One 1 Gb, and > one 4 Gb. The first is being used fine, but setting up the other (big) > one has been really confusing. As it boots up, it says it sees sd1 as > the correct size. So, I try "fdisk -i sd1" and it asks all kinds of > cool questions, then does nothing. When I try "mount /dev/sd1 /mnt" it > says "Incorrect magic number". What am I forgetting or doing > incorrectly? You forgot to disklabel(8) it. fdisk(8) is only needed for disks shared with other operating systems, but each and any BSD disks must be disklabeled. > Problem 2: (Sorry, no idea on this.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)