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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.se.dataphone.net!nntp.uio.no!newsfeeds.sol.net!europa.clark.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!news.mindlink.net!van-bc!usenet From: Christoff Snijders <christoff_snijders@dsi.bc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: New Hard Drive Installation Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:25:59 -0800 Organization: Online at Wimsey Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3336B927.80D@dsi.bc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.dynapro.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (WinNT; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37675 Hi! I bought a new hard drive this weekend, and added it to my system (your generic Pentium 120MHz from the good people at Gateway 2000, with (now two) IDE disks, running FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE). I finally figured out last night why I couldn't see the drive (I hadn't enabled wd1 in the kernel -- insert red face here!), but the part I can't figure out is why sysinstall won't let me write anything to the drive. I can configure the drive setup parameters, but any time I try to choose Write or Commit, I get the error "sysinstall: read: Invalid argument" and I'm back at #. Is there anything I could be doing wrong? As far as I can see, all the info I'm entering is correct, so I'm guessing that there's an error in sysinstall somewhere. FYI, the first hard drive is partitioned 660MB for FreeBSD and 600MB for Windows NT (I have to, unfortunately!). The new hard drive is partitioned for 800MB for DOS, 1.5GB for Windows NT, and +/-1.4GB (the rest) for FreeBSD, although I'm only allocating 600MB + 200MB for swap space. I'll keep the rest, and use it as I need it later. Many thanks for any suggestions you may have. Christoff Snijders