From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 3 14:36:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA19503 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 14:36:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from info.tsu.tomsk.su (info.tsu.tomsk.su [194.226.48.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA19477 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 14:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by info.tsu.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.2) with UUCP id FAA01831 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 05:36:47 +0800 (TSD) Received: (from vas@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.8.5/8.8.3) id PAA03657 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 15:33:03 +0800 (TSD) From: Victor Sudakov Message-Id: <199708030733.PAA03657@vas.tomsk.su> Subject: Re: having problems adding hard drives To: questions@freebsd.org (freebsd questions mailing list) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 15:33:02 +0800 (TSD) Reply-To: vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at "Aug 1, 97 00:39:26 am" Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello. After several unsuccessful attempts to add a new hard drive with /stand/sysinstall, I gave up the idea and tried to add it in the traditional unix way. That is, running fdisk, modifying /etc/disktab, then running disklabel and newfs. It turned out to be a complete success. Many thanks to Greg Lehey for his nice book. My advice: do not use /stand/sysinstall when you can avoid it. Frankly, I do not know a maintenance task that could not be accomplished without using sysinstall. Perhaps you can give me an example? Addind/deleting packages, setting time zone, adding parts of the source tree - all that is easily done without sysinstall. -- Victor Sudakov http://www.tomsk.su/r/persons/vas.htm