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Subject: Re: How does one add an addtional disk to an existing freeB 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jun 1996 16:04:52 -0000."
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:19:47 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Ah, say no more.  In 2.1R it was broken and an upgrade to 2.1.5
next week is strongly encouraged! :)

					Jordan

> I appreciate you bearing with and indulging me on this one...
> OK, maybe there are bugs in sysinstall?  I'm using freeBSD 2.1.
> 
> The new disk is partitioned so I went into sysinstall > Custom > Disklabel 
> Editor (selected my new disk, sd1) and my display looks something like this:
> 
>                         FreeBSD Disklabel Editor
> 
> Disk: sd1       Partition name: sd1s1   Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
> Disk: sd1       Partition name: sd1s2   Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
> Disk: sd1       Partition name: sd1s3   Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
> 
> Part    Mount            Size Newfs   Part   
> sd1s1e  /data1           99MB UFS Y
> sd1s2e  /data2         300MB UFS Y 
> sd1s3e  /data3          610MB UFS Y
> 
> The following commands are valid here (upper or lower case):
> C = Create      D = Delete         M = Mount   W = Write
> N = Newfs Opts  T = Newfs Toggle   U = Undo    Q = Finish
> A = Auto Defaults for all!
> 
> when select "w" to write the configuration I want, I get this error:
> 
> +--------------------------- Message -----------------------------------+
>  |You must partition the disk(s) before this option can be used.  |
> +----------------------------------------------------------------(100%)--    
 
>                                     < EXIT >                                 
> +------------------[ Press enter to continue ]-------------------------+
> 
> It appears that sysinstall's Disklabel recognizes that the disk has 
> been sliced up until it's asked to newfs...
> 
> Is there a way to run the command-line disklabel without it requiring 
> editing the /etc/disktab (again, the disk is another SCSI Connor 
> 1gig, just like the boot drive) ?  Then I could command-line newfs 'em 
> and add them to the /etc/fstab (which for me, is the expected course 
> of action, not sysinstall).
> 
> So where am I going wrong??
> Thanks for you help!
> 
> > Date:          Mon, 24 Jun 1996 15:03:48 -0700
> > From:          "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
> 
> > > There must be a straight forward procedure for fdisk, disklabel and 
> > > newsfs to add additional disks to an existing system.  I just can't seem 
> > 
> > In all recent releases of FreeBSD, /stand/sysinstall serves that
> > purpose.
> > 
> > 					Jordan
>  
> Ian Kallen                           ian@gamespot.com
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