On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Tom Guptill wrote:

> For some reason, when I try to do:
> 
> newfs /dev/rsd0a 
> 
> on my 3100, I get a "device not configured" error.  This is with a Quantum
> Prodrive LPS (yes, my vax has a disk I stole from a Mac) that is configured
> as follows:
> 
> [ --- Disklabel -- ]
>
> 3 partitions:
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:   260000        0    unused        0     0       	# (Cyl.    0 - 999)
>   b:   130000   260260      swap                    	# (Cyl. 1001 - 1500)
>   c:   479350        0    unused        0     0       	# (Cyl.    0 - 1843*)
> 
> Does anybody see anything terribly wrong with this?  I'm young enough that I
> never had to partition disks by hand, but I think I got it right. :)
> 
	You need to set the 'fstype' before newfs will accept the
	partition (and maybe fsize, bsize also)

	try the following

  a:   260000        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 99)

		David/abs

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