Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 14:44:22 +0000 () From: James Raynard <fcurrent@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: Ernie Elu <ernie@spooky.eis.net.au> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding drives with sysinstall Message-ID: <199607211444.OAA01402@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199607211259.WAA23057@spooky.eis.net.au> from "Ernie Elu" at Jul 21, 96 10:59:52 pm
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> > 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. Hmm. I wrote that FAQ entry based on some experimenting I did with -current's sysinstall of about a month ago (or perhaps even 2.1.0's sysinstall, I forget now). Anyway, the sysinstall that's now in -current (and presumably in 2.1.5) has a command-line option that allows you to add a new disk and bale out gracefully. Unfortunately I don't have any space to 'make release' here (nor do I have a second disk any more), but I think the relevant possibilities are:- sysinstall diskPartitionEditor sysinstall diskPartitionWrite sysinstall diskLabelEditor sysinstall diskLabelCommit (or sysinstall -fake ... for testing purposes) Can someone with the appropriate hardware, time and bravery try this out for me and I'll update the FAQ entry? Thanks!
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