From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jan 22 15:14:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA04090 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:14:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from stcgate.statcan.ca (stcgate.statcan.ca [142.206.192.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA04074 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:14:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by stcgate.statcan.ca (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA10028; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:14:25 -0500 Received: from stcinet.statcan.ca(142.206.128.146) by stcgate via smap (V1.3) id sma009987; Wed Jan 22 23:13:47 1997 Received: from statcan.ca by statcan.ca (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA21904; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:14:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:12:06 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Jeays X-Sender: jeays@austral Reply-To: Mike Jeays To: Mike Kerr cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mitsumi CD problem during probe In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Cool. I have another question, perhaps unrelated. I've never tried > installing a second hard drive, and find that I'm having difficulty doing > so. I've been told by some people that sysinstall is a more intuitive > way of doing partition and filesystem creation but when I load it up, the > mount points show and the NFS column has a * in it. I don't want > to screw up my current HD and partitions. Any ideas? > > Mike. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Mike Kerr | http://www.net/~mkerr > Kerr Information Systems | http://www.kerris.com/ > mkerr@kerris.com | Web Guy, etc. > I found that sysinstall did all that I needed. I crossed my fingers when I told it to run NEWFS, but it formatted the BSD partition correctly, and nothing I have done so far has done any harm to my Win95 disk. I even use the Win95 disk to keep backup copies of package files (.tgz), and of the FreeBSD installation as downloaded, and nothing bad has happened yet. The 2.2-BETA seems to have lots of improvements, and I am looking forward to the CD-ROM becoming available. Have courage - but make a backup first! I reported about a month ago that I was having trouble with a Gigabyte motherboard, Pentium 120 and new memory. I was getting occasional random crashes. My supplier agreed to replace all the new hardware, which I thought was excellent service, and the system has been rock solid ever since. Nothing wrong with the 2.2-BETA, and nothing wrong with Gigabyte motherboards, as far as I can tell.