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To: Ernie Elu <ernie@spooky.eis.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Adding drives with sysinstall 
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Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 10:49:50 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Hmmmm.  I'll put together a test box and try this out.

						Jordan

> I am trying to use sysinstall to add a second hard disk as per the
> freebsd-faq, as I find using disklabel manually confusing.
> 
> I select Expres mode, create the partition with fdisk, write it out then
> quit. That bit is fine, then sysinstall pops me into disklabel where I create
> just one new partition the size of the drive (sd1s1) with a mount point of 
> /usr/ports.
> 
> When I select w to write to disk then hit return to say yes, sysinstall puts
> up a dialog " Copying initail device files.." Segmentation fault (core dumped
)
> 
> According to the FAQ you are meant to be able to press q to exit
> after doing the write to disk, this is not the case.
> 
> The sysinstall is compiled from a fresh sup of -current today.
> 
> - Ernie.