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Date:      Tue, 02 May 2000 11:52:25 GMT
From:      mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa)
To:        blake@pyramus.com (Blake Swensen)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adding Hard disks (simple howto please)
Message-ID:  <390ec09a.111787762@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <SEN.957243488.620314943@news.sentex.net>
References:  <SEN.957243488.620314943@news.sentex.net>

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On 2 May 2000 00:58:08 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:

>One of the things that I do very seldom is add/upgrade disks.  When I
>finally get the SCSI bus to see the new drives I cannot remember how to get
>the doggone things to be sliced, partitioned.
>
>In this case, would someone please tell me the best way from a raw disk to
>a newfs. Please include MAKEDEV, disklabel and newfs.  


You are probably safest to do it via /stand/sysinstall


But check the faq, and check dejanews for the alternatives.

http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/

Answers to questions like these have been answered many times before.

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)		
Sentex Communications Corp,   		
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers 
could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)


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