From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 22:41:32 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id WAA13558 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 22:41:32 -0700 Received: from cc.jyu.fi (cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.3]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA13552 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 22:41:29 -0700 Received: from [130.234.41.39] (zaphod.maccc.jyu.fi) by cc.jyu.fi with SMTP id AA14522 (5.67a/IDA-1.4.4 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org); Fri, 1 Sep 1995 08:44:21 +0300 X-Sender: kallio@pop.jyu.fi Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 08:45:38 +0300 To: "Andrew Webster" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) Subject: Re: How to add a 2nd disk Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 17:44 31/8/95, Andrew Webster wrote: >I've been banging my head against the wall for the past hour trying to add >a 2nd IDE drive to an existing FreeBSD 2.0.5 system, and just > >Under freebsd 2.0, sysinstall allowed you to partition a disk and label it >without doing anything else. Under 2.0.5, you have to commit the >operation, Do like this: 1. boot from install floppy. 2. fdisk, disklabel the new disk and define one partition as root (/) disk (and one for /usr if you have 2 partitions 3. commit and define custom install and install for example only the /usr/games to the new disk 4. boot 5. edit fstab 6. mount -a 7. delete everything from the new disk And you will have a new empty installed disk. Seppo -- +-- Seppo Kallio ----- kallio@jyu.fi ---+ ! Computing Center ! Fax +358-41-603611 Phone +358-41-603606 ! ! University of Jyvaskyla ! http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio ! +-- Finland --+-- 62.14N 25.44E -- +