Date: Sun, 27 Oct 96 15:19:32 -0800 From: Randall Raemon <delta1@netcom.com> To: dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) Cc: moore@wolfenet.com (Timothy Moore), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a second, bootable disk Message-ID: <199610272119.PAA10526@netcom18.netcom.com>
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In message <199610271954.NAA27100@night.primate.wisc.edu> Paul DuBois writes > sysinstall is also apparently unable to do the stuff about selecting > a disk slick and partitioning it. It allows you to select a slice, > then allows you to specify how to partition it, but when you say Write > to actually have it write the information to the disk, it crashes. > This is too bad, because the sysinstall procedure for selecting and > partitioning is *so* much nicer than disklabel. I've run into this, doing this exact same kind of thing. There was an eyeblink of a message on my box saying that the system was unable to newfs the slice that I had said to be swap space on the new disk. I checked the slicing after the write and before the barf. The slicing took. I had to go in and disklabel/newfs the hard way, using the line commands. It took a couple of iterations thru sysinstall for me to get the numbers that disklabel and newfs needed. Once I had the specs for the partitions inside the slices, it was a relative breeze. The disk has been humming along since. Be sure to read the newfs manpage, as there are some insane defaults for some key geometry values. -- Randall Raemon delta1@netcom.com
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