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From: zeeb@digitaladvantage.net (Russ Panula)
To: Mike <flaq@synwork.com>
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Subject: Re: The Old New Disk Question
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 18:09:19 -0600
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On Sun, 11 Aug 1996 14:21:07 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:

>I have just spent the past three hours searching the archives for a step
>by step explanation of how to add a new hard drive.  I want to add a
>fourth drive to my box.  I saw this question asked MANY times in the
>archives, but replies were few and far between.  
>
>I tried using /stand/sysinstall and it would core on me everytime I tried
>to create the newfs.
>
>TIA
>


I've had the core dump problem with sysinstall too..  I think it has
something to do with an invalid partition table (no magic ;-).  Try
booting with a DOS disk, running fdisk, creating a partition on the
disk, then boot into FBSD and see if you can proceed from there.

Russ