From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 18 16:52:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA29807 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA29425 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:50:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA02274; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:49:21 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA19024; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 01:49:18 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id AAA02686; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:13:57 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611182313.AAA02686@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Install of a new scsi drive.... HELP To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:13:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: rama@easynet.fr (David Ramahefason) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from David Ramahefason at "Nov 18, 96 04:21:23 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Ramahefason wrote: > I've only managed to use the 'c' slice, and a friend of mine told me that > it was dangerous and unsafe... and that I should better use the 'a' > slice... `partition' in our terminology, btw. `slices' are what's your fdisk table pointing to. Well, if you can already use `c', simply run `disklabel -e', and clone this one into another partition. See the FAQ, section: 2.15. How can I add my new hard disk to my FreeBSD system? (Have a look at the current FAQ on www.freebsd.org, please. This section has been updated.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)