Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 08:22:50 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: jc@netview.net (John Clark) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel? What a joke! Message-ID: <199608051522.IAA01077@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960805142645.006fbd88@netview.net> from "John Clark" at Aug 5, 96 09:26:45 am
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> I am trying to add my first disk to a FreeBSD system. If I am not mistaken > it appears that one must: fdisk, disklabel, then newfs the disk. If this is > true, then this part of FreeBSD is a joke. I thought the Linux utility was > bad, but at least it is useable. Has anyone ever successfully added a disk > like this? Yes. I did this back in the 1.1.5.1R days. > I must be wrong in my initial assessment of this situation as there would > certainly be documentation on how to do this in the handbook or FAQ. > Perhaps I am the only one dumb enough to need help and ask a question, but > it would seem to me that this would be "frequent" (aka FAQ). > > Not having a method of easily repairing partitions and upgrading hardware is > like running a system without passwords. Passwords? Gee, what are they??? :> I think sysinstall does this in 2.1.5R... --don
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