From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 5 12:06:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA11889 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA11876 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 12:06:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA10417 for ; Mon, 5 Aug 1996 14:08:29 GMT Received: from buffnet7.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa23070; 5 Aug 96 15:11 EDT Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 15:11:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: John Clark cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel? What a joke! In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960805142645.006fbd88@netview.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.