From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 20 08:57:42 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA19045 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 08:57:42 -0800 Received: from vogon.muc.de (root@vogon.muc.de [193.174.4.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA19010 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 08:56:26 -0800 Received: from [193.174.4.22] ([193.174.4.22]) by vogon.muc.de with SMTP id <93233-2>; Mon, 20 Nov 1995 17:00:21 +0100 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 20 Nov 1995 17:01:18 +0100 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de From: lutz@muc.de (Lutz Albers) Subject: Re: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In article <199511200003.BAA14638@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch writes: - -As Marc G. Fournier wrote: -> (deleted) -> Actually, the user interface itself is perfect, if it wasn't -> hidden inside the Installation interface, and required you to commit -> to an install in order for it to add your drive... - -You misunderstood: i meant the user interface of fdisk(8)/ -disklabel(8). - -sysinstall and libdisk are an entirely different thing. But believe -it or not, all of us still use the terrible interface, except for a -fresh installation... Then, if you don't mind, please give us the magic incarnations you need to tame this awful two-headed beast (fdisk/disklabel). Translation: Which parameters to have to give to fdisk (and more important) to disklabel and which of the error messages do I ignore ? And yes, I've read the man pages, but I've never been able to add a new disc with these tools. The only way to me is to start an installation on this disc and then abort it after newfs-ing. ciao lutz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lutz Albers | What's good ? Luederitzstr. 14, 81929-Muenchen, Germany | Life's good - email:lutz@muc.de ph: +49-89-93940364 | But not fair at all http://www.muc.de/~lutz fax:+49-89-93940365 | (Lou Reed) Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.