Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 22:06:23 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: final confirmation of sysinstall-method for disk addition... Message-ID: <455E86BF.5060801@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0611171518530.21120-100000@shell.dhp.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0611171518530.21120-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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On 11/17/06 14:22, Ensel Sharon wrote: > First off, thanks for the help the last two days - I appreciate your > comments very much. > > > I am going to add my five 500 GB disks to my system today, and I am going > to tell my adaptec card to create a 1999 GB array on them. > > Therefore, the "disk" that will be presented to FreeBSD by the raid card > will be <2TB. This means that I should be able to use sysinstall. > > My question is: > > - Is there _any reason whatsoever_ that this method: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html > > (top item, 17.3.1, adding a new disk to an existing system using > sysinstall) > > will not work with 6.1-RELEASE and a 1999 GB disk ? Any chance this > document is slightly out of date, or some minor changes that are in 6.1 > that aren't in the docs yet ? > > Or can I just follow these instructions to the letter and happily add my > disk ? > > Thanks. Why not download the recently built 6.2-RC1 disk, experiment with that, and report any issues you *do* hit, that way others can learn from your experience, and we can make FreeBSD better. 'Just do it' Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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