From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 9 14:00:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA23987 for current-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 14:00:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA23982 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 14:00:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA15577; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:58:56 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA19914; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:42:51 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:42:50 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: kingram@ipro.com (Ken Ingram) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping References: <199701091751.JAA18413@ipro.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701091751.JAA18413@ipro.com>; from Ken Ingram on Jan 9, 1997 09:58:44 -0800 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ken Ingram wrote: > Thanks. I looked it over and tried some things but it's so poorly written > that I'm now more confused than ever. ``poorly written'' is hardly fair. It has been written by somebody who has just figured out how to do all this, back in that time. Feel free to submit a better entry. > If I run fdisk manually I can't get it to recognize wd2. Note: fdisk is optional, you don't necessarily need it. Disklabel is mandatory however. Are you sure your kernel even detects the disk? What do you mean with ``can't get it to recognize''? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)