Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 13:54:00 -0600 From: dubois@primate.wisc.edu (Paul DuBois) To: moore@WOLFENET.com (Timothy Moore) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a second, bootable disk Message-ID: <199610271954.NAA27100@night.primate.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610271803.KAA25571@gonzo.wolfenet.com>; from Timothy Moore on Oct 27, 1996 10:03:07 -0800 References: <199610271803.KAA25571@gonzo.wolfenet.com>
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Timothy Moore writes: > I've added a 4gig SCSI drive to my FreeBSD (mostly) 2.1.5-release > system for the purpose of installing current. I think I'm clear on > the procedure described in Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD". > However, what seems to be missing is how to make the second disk > bootable using the userland tools. If there is only going to be a > single FreeBSD partion on the disk, can I use disklabel(8) to write > the bootblocks? It seems like I need to do something to the MBR too > and neither the disklabel or fdisk man pages say anything about that. > > I guess an alternative is to use /stand/sysinstall. My /stand is > pretty old, dating from around 2.0.5. Is it safe to use for this > purpose, or should I rebuild sysintall from the 2.1.5 sources? Is > anything else needed besides the sysinstall binary? Well, here's something you *don't* want to try. (This is using sysinstall from 2.1.5). Run sysinstall, select and partition stuff on your second disk, select your packages, then go ahead and start extracting the packages. I did this (just yesterday) and the install proceeded to extract onto my *running* installation on the first disk. I was not thrilled, to say the least. sysinstall is also apparently unable to do the stuff about selecting a disk slick and partitioning it. It allows you to select a slice, then allows you to specify how to partition it, but when you say Write to actually have it write the information to the disk, it crashes. This is too bad, because the sysinstall procedure for selecting and partitioning is *so* much nicer than disklabel. -- Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu Home page: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/dubois Software: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/software
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