From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 05:49:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA13381 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 05:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com (uswgco2.uswest.com [206.196.133.74]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA13376 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 05:49:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id GAA10077 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 06:49:22 -0600 (MDT) Received: from egate.mnet.uswest.com(151.116.23.138) by uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com via smap (V1.3) id sma010070; Fri Jun 21 06:49:21 1996 Received: from easthub (easthub.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.26.86]) by egate.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id GAA06837 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 06:49:21 -0600 (MDT) Received: by easthub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.951228) Received: by acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA02911; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 07:49:19 -0500 Received: from astro.acs.uswest.com by acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA02904; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 07:49:14 -0500 Received: by astro.acs.uswest.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id HAA02157; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 07:48:59 -0500 From: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) Message-Id: <199606211248.HAA02157@astro.acs.uswest.com> Subject: Re: Adding a new hard disk To: pschwenk@crooow.wcupa.edu (Peter Schwenk) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 07:48:59 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Peter Schwenk" at Jun 20, 96 10:42:28 pm X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- Paul T. Root - USWEST !NTERPRISE Networking Service ptroot@uswest.com Ruht Row! -- Astro, (the Jetsons)