Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 18:09:19 -0600 From: zeeb@digitaladvantage.net (Russ Panula) To: Mike <flaq@synwork.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Old New Disk Question Message-ID: <320e7606.13414726@mail.digitaladvantage.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960811141848.1469A-100000@synwork.com> References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960811141848.1469A-100000@synwork.com>
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On Sun, 11 Aug 1996 14:21:07 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >I have just spent the past three hours searching the archives for a step >by step explanation of how to add a new hard drive. I want to add a >fourth drive to my box. I saw this question asked MANY times in the >archives, but replies were few and far between. > >I tried using /stand/sysinstall and it would core on me everytime I tried >to create the newfs. > >TIA > I've had the core dump problem with sysinstall too.. I think it has something to do with an invalid partition table (no magic ;-). Try booting with a DOS disk, running fdisk, creating a partition on the disk, then boot into FBSD and see if you can proceed from there. Russ
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