From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 23:29:46 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA17725 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 23:29:46 -0700 Received: from cc.jyu.fi (cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.3]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA17718 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 23:29:42 -0700 Received: from [130.234.41.39] (zaphod.maccc.jyu.fi) by cc.jyu.fi with SMTP id AA06307 (5.67a/IDA-1.4.4 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org); Thu, 24 Aug 1995 09:31:46 +0300 X-Sender: kallio@pop.jyu.fi Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 09:33:31 +0300 To: "Charles N. Owens" , questions list FreeBSD From: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Subject: Re: fdisk update, background NFS mounting? Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 15:17 23/8/95, Charles N. Owens wrote: >Hi all, >For anyone interested, I was able to get my 4 gig scsi drive going. I >couldn't get fdisk to do it's thing (at least as far as I could tell), so >instead I simply booted from the install floppy and did a minimal install >on the the new drive. Worked like a charm. It is a bit of a kludgy way >to go, though. Why can't we have a utility that has the brains of sysinstall >that shields us from the fdisk and disklabel yuckiness? Oh boys and girls! Some other soul has seen these problems also! Yes, I did try this "install way" of disk init also. It did work. And it would be quite nice IF the install would not insist to load something form net into the root partition. That is W (Write) command is missing from disklabel/fdisk screen. It is writing dikslabel+fdisk info after you start installing software (the "confirm" must be accepted). Seppo -- +-- Seppo Kallio ----- kallio@jyu.fi ---+ ! Computing Center ! Fax +358-41-603611 Phone +358-41-603606 ! ! University of Jyvaskyla ! http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio ! +-- Finland --+-- 62.14N 25.44E -- +