Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:43:27 +0300 From: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ** How to add second SCSI disk ? ** Message-ID: <v01530506ac57778cc971@[130.234.41.39]>
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I am very dissapointed: Adding second SCSI disk drive to the FreeBSD system seems to be very complicated! I did first try the installation floppy: Everyting seems to go fine, execpt the fact that I could not get the installation to write the fdisk and partition data into the disk. I had to go to fdisk + disklabel etc. and it is really oldfashioned and complicated. The installation is writing the data only after software instalation, but I do not have any need to FreeBSD software on my second disk. And installation does not install if I do not have root (and swap?) on the new disk. Is one solution to make new disk with root partition only and install some minimal system on it? I did look for FAQ:s and the FreeBSD Documentation project. No help with the problem! The DocProject has nothing on the WWW-page: "9.2. * Adding and reconfiguring disks" "http://freefall.freebsd.org/How/handbook/handbook-65.html#88" 1. Why does not the installation (fdisk and disklabel) have a W command to force the data to the disk. 2. How is it possible that this is not a FAQ? Seppo PS. There was some Linux users looking over my shoulder, they had really fun. -- +-- Seppo Kallio ----- kallio@jyu.fi ---+ ! Computing Center ! Fax +358-41-603611 Phone +358-41-603606 ! ! University of Jyvaskyla ! http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio ! +-- Finland --+-- 62.14N 25.44E -- +
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