Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:00:51 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Cc: jc@netview.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel? What a joke! Message-ID: <199608051900.MAA18473@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <199608051758.KAA06108@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Aug 5, 96 10:58:03 am
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It seems that Gary Kline said: > > According to John Clark: > > Hello, > > > > 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? [snip] > This is neither sarcasm nor a flame, but one reason that > I've delayed adding a second drive to my 2.0.5 system > is that the docs are at least obscure. > > I'm hoping that by the time 2.1.5 comes out, adding SCSI > drive 2 will be a snap. Buy cable and disk, make a few` > changes to /etc/whatever and _presto_. > > ((Is this happening yet?)) If you can't stomach disklabel (et al.) look at sysinstall... > As far as I'm concerned, your posting reflects reality. > At the same time, this (FBSD) is pretty much a volunteer > effort... and given that, is fairly well done. And is > getting better. > > Maybe you have some concrete ideas on how-to do the installation > of a new drive more easily... ?
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