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Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:33:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Adam Olson <adamo@humboldt1.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adding a hard drive (SCSI)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970717233210.283G-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970717111043.1929A-100000@home.humboldt1.com>

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On Thu, 17 Jul 1997, Adam Olson wrote:

> 
>   Hi...I am running FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 and I want to add a new SCSI hard 
> drive (first time I've tried adding a hard drive at all).  I can't find 
> sysinstall which I keep hearing about....does it come with 2.1.7.1...if I 
> don't have it how do I then add a new hard drive?  thanks....

sysinstall is the system installation utility.  After you're installed, it
lives in /stand/sysinstall.

Check out my disk building docs at
http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html.  No tilde.  This walks you
through the setup procedure.  I tested it on an IDE drive and on a SCSI
Zip, which is exactly like a SCSI disk for all intents and purposes.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail    | Death to Cyberpromo




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