From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 28 16:10:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA16649 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:10:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16644 for ; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:10:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA00256; Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:10:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 16:10:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ian Kallen cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding disks and the disklabel question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 28 Jul 1996, Ian Kallen wrote: > If disklabel is going to be so demanding, why is the /etc/disktab that is > distributed so limited? >From what I can tell, disklabel can autodetect the geometry. See disklabel(8). This sequence was posted earlier. Give it a spin: =========================================================================== >From j@uriah.heep.sax.de Sun Jul 28 16:08:53 1996 Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 13:29:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch To: FreeBSD-current users Cc: Ernie Elu Subject: Re: Adding a second scsi drive As Ernie Elu wrote: > Can someone one email me a set of instructions on how to add a second scsi > drive with -current without using sysinstall? I mailed my procedure a dozen times: disklabel -Brw sd1 auto disklabel -e sd1 # edit partitions for filesys in `get file system partitions of sd1` do newfs -d0 /dev/rsd1${filesys} done vi /etc/fstab This creates ``dangerously dedicated'' drives (thus no `fdisk' required), as long as this is fine with you, the above is perhaps the easiest way. > Sysinstall still core dumps when I try and usr it to partition and and > disklabel the second drive. Analyze it, and tell Jordan about the actual problem. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- whack -- This is a quickie. I have the long explanation of this from Seppo if you are interested. If I had a disk to make, I'd write a tutorial. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major