Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:42:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu> To: Derek Ruth <druth@3loop9.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new hard drive installation Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.970320232323.18050A-100000@keystone.westminster.edu> In-Reply-To: <199703210348.TAA01170@3loop9.com>
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On Thu, 20 Mar 1997, Derek Ruth wrote: > I am trying to install a new hard drive in my FreeBSD box. I have > installed it physically in the box, and it reckognizes it at boot up. But > I cannot figure out where to go from there, how do I format, etc... > Please help me. I do not want to replace my previous hard drivew just > supplement it. Mind you, I've been trying this and had very little luck, but I just have a screwed up system to begin with. Run /stand/sysinstall. I use the Custom installation option, but I've heard that you can use Express too. Just do the Partition and Label steps; with another hard drive, you'll have a choice of which device to partition; just use the new device; wd1 or sd1, probably. Setup a FreeBSD partition, and label it with the mount point. The alternative is to do it all manually; first, use disklabel(8) to set up the drive with the right geometry and FS type (4.2BSD), then use newfs to setup the filesystem, and finally use mount to mount the fs. Use disklabel to look at your already-mounted fs to get any variables you don't know, and other than that, guess. Format should have been taken care of at the factory; I'm not sure FreeBSD supports a way to format hard drives; other than erasing all the partition information and starting from scratch, which has the same effect. Anyway, if you futz around with the commands long enough, and look through enough man pages, you'll find the way. With a little luck, I will too. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* |FreeBSD is good. FreeBSD is our friend. UNIX is our god.| *Micro$oft is bad. Micro$oft causes problems.* |MicroBSD??? I DON'T THINK SO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!| |"I hate quotes in signature files" :-} MAtthew Fuller| *fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu FreeBSD junkie* |http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd Westminster College| *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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