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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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