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Date:      Fri, 1 Sep 1995 04:58:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      bmk@dtr.com
To:        kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio)
Cc:        awebster@dataradio.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to add a 2nd disk
Message-ID:  <199509011158.EAA00488@rainier>
In-Reply-To: <v0153052bac6c4c34d706@[130.234.41.39]> from "Seppo Kallio" at Sep 1, 95 08:45:38 am

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> 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.

Sure, this works.  However, what if the new disk happens to be the
5th disk (the floppy kernel only supports sd1-sd4) and the installer
doesn't want to temporarily remove one of the disks?

This could be done in 2.0 - and it's gotta be possible in 2.0.5, it just
does not appear to be documented very well.




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