Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:11:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: John Clark <jc@netview.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel? What a joke! Message-ID: <Pine.BSD.3.91.960805151018.6986A-100000@buffnet7.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960805142645.006fbd88@netview.net>
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On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, John Clark wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to add my first disk to a FreeBSD system. If I am not mistaken > it appears that one must: fdisk, disklabel, then newfs the disk. If this is > true, then this part of FreeBSD is a joke. I thought the Linux utility was > bad, but at least it is useable. Has anyone ever successfully added a disk > like this? Non that I know of - what I do is a phoney install - I copy all of /etc out - use the boot diskette and say Im installing over NFS, but give it a dummy nfs path. When it hits that point, its formatted my new disk. I reboot, chmod the /etc back to what it should be, copy my saved /etc back in. It is not a good way to do things but nothing else works for me.
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