From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 17 23:34:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA02840 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA02810 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA00377; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:33:43 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 23:33:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Adam Olson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a hard drive (SCSI) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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