Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 17:17:23 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> To: efb@cotdazr.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Add disks F.BSD Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970312171722.0115c830@mixcom.com>
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At 11:36 AM 3/12/97 -0800, Ev Batey wrote: >Cruising the f.bsd web sites .. lots of BSD FAQs .. I neither find F.BSD >nor BSDI guidance on how to format a new (after install) disk for BSD, >nor how to label or low-level for adding to an existing BSD e.g._2.0.5 BSDi is a breeze: disksetup -i sd0/wd0 etc Interactive mode, just like sysinstall on FreeBSD, but not as buggy (sometimes it takes a few trys) Then either just 'newfs' or with the flags of choice. The default is usually fine, excepting news. About as easy as DOS without a reboot. The URL Burton gave works, but not as brainless as using sysinstall, which appears to be broken again (or is it still ;) it did work on 2.1.5 last time I tried. Enjoy! ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990
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