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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!news From: Christoff Snijders <hjcs@portal.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SOLVED New Hard Drive Installation Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:22:04 +0000 Organization: Client of Intenet Portal Services Lines: 26 Message-ID: <33367FFC.167EB0E7@portal.ca> References: <3336B927.80D@dsi.bc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: d151.portal.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37738 Christoff Snijders wrote: <snip> > 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 #. > <snip> For those who are interested, I solved the problem. It seems that the FreeBSD partition editor wants to be the first to write to a new drive; not DOS's FDISK or Windows NT. When I let FreeBSD do its thing, everything worked perfectly. Thanks to those who pondered . . . Ch. -- Christoff Snijders hjcs@portal.ca