Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 07:48:59 -0500 (CDT) From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) To: pschwenk@crooow.wcupa.edu (Peter Schwenk) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a new hard disk Message-ID: <199606211248.HAA02157@astro.acs.uswest.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960620222221.4314A-100000@crooow.wcupa.edu> from "Peter Schwenk" at Jun 20, 96 10:42:28 pm
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In a previous message, Peter Schwenk said:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I know this has been discussed many times before, but I really don't
> understand the fdisk and disklabel process involved with preparing a new
> hard disk for use. I've been using FreeBSD for quite some time now, but
> never was required to mess with this stuff, sysinstall did it for me.
> Now I am adding a SCSI drive to an existing FreeBSD 2.1.0-on-IDE-drive
> setup, and, having come from the dullard world of DOS, I don't quite get
> what I'm supposed to do. It's probably terminology that's bogging me
> down. Here's the specifics. I hope someone will be patient with me and
> push me in the right direction.
I just did this last night, with my SyQuest drive. And I used sysinstall
to do it.
Steps:
1) start sysinstall (from /stand) as root.
2) Go to 'Custom' menu
3) Go to 'Partition' menu
It will then give you a choice of the disks on the system.
4) Choose the new disk, then create the fdisk info
on it. (ie make DOS and FreeBSD slices). I
make it a complete FreeBSD disk since its a removable
disk.
5) Do a write (W) then quit (Q).
6) Then go into the 'Label' menu, and create a partion
in the FreeBSD slice.
7) Do a write and quit. Then exit out of sysinstall.
8) Do a newfs on the raw partition.
That's it!
Paul.
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