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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
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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

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