Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 10:37:02 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: having problems adding hard drives Message-ID: <199708040107.KAA00626@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199708030733.PAA03657@vas.tomsk.su> from Victor Sudakov at "Aug 3, 97 03:33:02 pm"
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Victor Sudakov writes: > Hello. > > After several unsuccessful attempts to add a new hard drive with > /stand/sysinstall, I gave up the idea and tried to add it in the traditional > unix way. That is, running fdisk, modifying /etc/disktab, then running > disklabel and newfs. It turned out to be a complete success. Many thanks to > Greg Lehey for his nice book. You're welcome :-) > My advice: do not use /stand/sysinstall when you can avoid it. Frankly, I do > not know a maintenance task that could not be accomplished without using > sysinstall. Perhaps you can give me an example? Addind/deleting packages, > setting time zone, adding parts of the source tree - all that is easily done > without sysinstall. Well, I'm sorry to report that I added a new disk the other day, using my own book of course, and I had the devil's own job getting it done. The problem is that the values reported by the various utilities are frequently all different. In an update to my book (posted every Monday on this list), I said 'use the value returned by fdisk'. I'm beginning to think that this isn't always the case. I'm still actively working on this topic. In any case, I have now taken a look at Doug White's tutorial (http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html), which explains how to use sysinstall to do the job. Have you seen this tutorial? If so, what problems did you have with it? If not, it could be that you would have had more success with this method. Does anybody else have any comments on the relative usability of the two methods? Greg
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