From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 00:53:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA28937 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:53:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA28840 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:53:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA01259; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:53:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:53:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Robert Chalmers cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Has anyone got a disktab entry for a Compaq 2.6GB SCSI drive? In-Reply-To: <357B10F6.69DA17C4@chalmers.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Robert Chalmers wrote: > Hi, > Because I can't get sysinstall to set up my second SCSI drive, I'm going to > attempt to make a disktab entry for it, and do a disklabel+newfs by hand. > > I'm running a 2.2-SNAP, the last one issued. But sysinstall insists on trying > to make a root partition, and insists on trying to install software. As a > result, it wont write the partition information. So its a do it by hand job. Hm ... have you read the diskformat tutorial? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message