From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 12 20:59:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA18003 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 20:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from suntan.tandem.com (suntan.tandem.com [192.216.221.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA17995 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 20:59:06 -0700 (PDT) From: grog@lemis.com Received: from papillon.lemis.com by suntan.tandem.com (8.6.12/suntan5.970212) id UAA16335; Tue, 12 Aug 1997 20:58:51 -0700 Received: (grog@localhost) by papillon.lemis.com (8.8.4/8.6.12) id LAA00570; Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:31:21 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199708130231.LAA00570@papillon.lemis.com> Subject: Re: having problems adding hard drives In-Reply-To: <199708060250.KAA12342@vas.tomsk.su> from Victor Sudakov at "Aug 6, 97 10:50:26 am" To: vas@vas.tsu.tomsk.su Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:31:21 +0900 (JST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Victor Sudakov writes: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> In any case, I have now taken a look at Doug White's tutorial >> (http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html), which explains how >> to use sysinstall to do the job. Have you seen this tutorial? If so, >> what problems did you have with it? If not, it could be that you >> would have had more success with this method. Does anybody else have >> any comments on the relative usability of the two methods? > > I think this is also an ideological question. In my opinion, a good unix > admin should not become dependent on tools which vary from system to system. > I believe the disktab method would work in any unix while the sysintall > method would work only in FreeBSD. You may be very skilled in using > sysinstall, but you may feel helpless if you change your job. Well, don't get the impression that the disktab approach is that portable. Take a look at Nemeth et al for the gory details: just about every vendor does his own things nowadays. And it's really painful on FreeBSD due to the differing opinions about geometry that each tool supplies--something that could be improved. I make no bones about it: give me a properly functioning sysinstall approach, and I'll take it every time. And I work on lots of different systems. Greg