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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
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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