From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 10:51:51 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA17057 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 10:51:51 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA17051 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 10:51:49 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id DAA29401; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 03:53:41 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199508161823.DAA29401@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ** How to add second SCSI disk ? ** To: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 03:53:40 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Seppo Kallio" at Aug 16, 95 01:43:27 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1075 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Seppo Kallio stands accused of saying: > I am very dissapointed: Adding second SCSI disk drive to the FreeBSD system > seems to be very complicated! Nooo, it's very trivial. I can't understand why people have so much trouble with it 8( > Is one solution to make new disk with root partition only and install some > minimal system on it? No. Feed the disk to fdisk -i, then disklabel it, then newfs your filesystems. Should take all of a minute or two, once you work out what's going on. > 2. How is it possible that this is not a FAQ? It _is_ a FAQ, but nobody's written an entry for it. Tell you what, if you want, I'll talk you through it & you can write the entry. Deal? 8) > Seppo -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[