Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:12:06 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca> To: Mike Kerr <mkerr@kerris.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mitsumi CD problem during probe Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.92.970122175800.1076A-100000@austral> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970122073249.2200A-100000@lugh.kerris.com>
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> Cool. I have another question, perhaps unrelated. I've never tried > installing a second hard drive, and find that I'm having difficulty doing > so. I've been told by some people that sysinstall is a more intuitive > way of doing partition and filesystem creation but when I load it up, the > mount points show <none> and the NFS column has a * in it. I don't want > to screw up my current HD and partitions. Any ideas? > > Mike. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Mike Kerr | http://www.net/~mkerr > Kerr Information Systems | http://www.kerris.com/ > mkerr@kerris.com | Web Guy, etc. > I found that sysinstall did all that I needed. I crossed my fingers when I told it to run NEWFS, but it formatted the BSD partition correctly, and nothing I have done so far has done any harm to my Win95 disk. I even use the Win95 disk to keep backup copies of package files (.tgz), and of the FreeBSD installation as downloaded, and nothing bad has happened yet. The 2.2-BETA seems to have lots of improvements, and I am looking forward to the CD-ROM becoming available. Have courage - but make a backup first! I reported about a month ago that I was having trouble with a Gigabyte motherboard, Pentium 120 and new memory. I was getting occasional random crashes. My supplier agreed to replace all the new hardware, which I thought was excellent service, and the system has been rock solid ever since. Nothing wrong with the 2.2-BETA, and nothing wrong with Gigabyte motherboards, as far as I can tell.
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