Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:24:00 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 18gig drive's supported? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811101021260.7226-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811100919330.15423-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> Surprisingly, I did...when I upgraded the system to its currently
> level...:( Now I've got sysinstall upgraded and installed, but when I go
> to 'label' or 'fdisk', it auto-presents me with da0, but doesn't give me
> the old choices of working with any of the other drives...did I miss a new
> command line switch her or something like that? Have read man pages, have
> built a new libdisk.a *just in case*...
Give up and use fdisk, disklabel, and newfs directly. I think it was a
mistake to re-invent the whell and re-develop all these functions and call
it sysinstall. sysinstall has problems with large DPT disks too, but
disklable and newfs work fine directly.
> Marc G. Fournier
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
Tom
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