From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 21 13:06:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA22958 for current-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 13:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-5.mail.demon.net (relay-5.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.48]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA22949 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 13:06:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk by relay-5.mail.demon.net id bd04469; 21 Jul 96 20:40 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa20197; 21 Jul 96 20:37 +0100 Received: (from fcurrent@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA01402; Sun, 21 Jul 1996 14:44:23 GMT From: James Raynard Message-Id: <199607211444.OAA01402@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Adding drives with sysinstall To: Ernie Elu Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 14:44:22 +0000 () Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607211259.WAA23057@spooky.eis.net.au> from "Ernie Elu" at Jul 21, 96 10:59:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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!