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Date:      Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:10:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        Ian Kallen <spidaman@well.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: adding disks and the disklabel question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960728160612.226A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960728043801.2772A-100000@well>

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On Sun, 28 Jul 1996, Ian Kallen wrote:

> If disklabel is going to be so demanding, why is the /etc/disktab that is 
> distributed so limited? 

>From what I can tell, disklabel can autodetect the geometry.  See
disklabel(8).

This sequence was posted earlier.  Give it a spin:

===========================================================================
>From j@uriah.heep.sax.de Sun Jul 28 16:08:53 1996
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 13:29:43 +0200 (MET DST)
From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To: FreeBSD-current users <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Cc: Ernie Elu <ernie@spooky.eis.net.au>
Subject: Re: Adding a second scsi drive

As Ernie Elu wrote:

> Can someone one email me a set of instructions on how to add a second scsi
> drive with -current without using sysinstall?

I mailed my procedure a dozen times:

	disklabel -Brw sd1 auto
	disklabel -e sd1	# edit partitions
	for filesys in `get file system partitions of sd1`
	do
		newfs -d0 /dev/rsd1${filesys}
	done
	vi /etc/fstab

This creates ``dangerously dedicated'' drives (thus no `fdisk'
required), as long as this is fine with you, the above is perhaps the
easiest way.

> Sysinstall still core dumps when I try and usr it to partition and and 
> disklabel the second drive.

Analyze it, and tell Jordan about the actual problem.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

-- whack --

This is a quickie.  I have the long explanation of this from Seppo if you
are interested.

If I had a disk to make, I'd write a tutorial.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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