Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 01:33:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Adding New Hard Drives: A Major Complaint Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951119012635.342A-100000@hub.org>
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Hi... Either I'm missing something really simple, or its missing... ...but this OS does not have a utility that will allow one to add a new drive onto an existing system. I've looked at 'man -k disk', and about the only things I find are 'fdisk' and 'disklabel'...neither of which helps in anyway. The handbook mentions sysinstall, which I've tried from the boot floppy and from the command line, and in both cases, I can't find any *simple* way of creating the partitions I want... The closest I've found is to go through a pseudo-install process which really doesn't even come close to being a "safe" way to do something...since, by a simple mistake, you could wipe out your existing system... Oh well...that is my rant...am I missing something? I know under BSDi, there is the disksetup utility...and in the file 'diskspace.FAQ', it points to sysinstall as being able to do this, but sysintall, whenever I start it up, shoves me into an installation mode that I really don't want... Thanks... Marc G. Fournier | Knowledge, Information and Communications, Inc (ki.net) scrappy@hub.org | soon to be: | scrappy@ki.net | For more information, send me email.
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