From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 15:21:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA18566 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:21:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mixcom.mixcom.com (mixcom.mixcom.com [198.137.186.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA18559 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:21:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from P60 by mixcom.mixcom.com (8.6.12/2.2) id RAA17137; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 17:19:04 -0600 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970312171722.0115c830@mixcom.com> X-Sender: sysop@mixcom.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 17:17:23 -0600 To: efb@cotdazr.org From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: Add disks F.BSD Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:36 AM 3/12/97 -0800, Ev Batey wrote: >Cruising the f.bsd web sites .. lots of BSD FAQs .. I neither find F.BSD >nor BSDI guidance on how to format a new (after install) disk for BSD, >nor how to label or low-level for adding to an existing BSD e.g._2.0.5 BSDi is a breeze: disksetup -i sd0/wd0 etc Interactive mode, just like sysinstall on FreeBSD, but not as buggy (sometimes it takes a few trys) Then either just 'newfs' or with the flags of choice. The default is usually fine, excepting news. About as easy as DOS without a reboot. The URL Burton gave works, but not as brainless as using sysinstall, which appears to be broken again (or is it still ;) it did work on 2.1.5 last time I tried. Enjoy! ------------------------------------------- Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator jeff@mixcom.net MIX Communications Serving the Internet since 1990