From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 9 3:33:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A57FA37B408 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 03:33:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15quBO-000Jng-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2001 13:32:18 +0300 Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:32:18 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing and Partitioning a new HD Message-ID: <20011009133218.S23199@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="byLs0wutDcxFdwtm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: Anybody who doesn't cut his speed at the sight of a police car is probably parked. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 1:30PM up 3 days, 1:33, 1 user, load averages: 0.07, 0.09, 0.08 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --byLs0wutDcxFdwtm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * default [20011009 09:02]: writing o= n the subject 'Installing and Partitioning a new HD' | Hi, |=20 | I am about to add a second hard drive to my FreeBSD machine... and I was | hoping someone could give me some basic command instructions on what all= I | need to do in order to have the drive be recognized and partitioned... Sysinstall can do that for you (/stand/sysinstall) |=20 | I will need to edit the new info into /etc/fstab in order to have this | drive loaded from boot correct? Yes. | During my original installation, I only specified 1 hd driver, ... is th= ere | anything special I need to do in order to be able to add another one in? | (like kernel re-config etc?) As long as the BIOS detects the disk, no. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.=20 -Dean Rostand=20 --byLs0wutDcxFdwtm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7wtIyn7LIsuxjem8RAkceAJ9LqgyOY7+EhcmwB3nooitp5FWmhACgszTm sj7oJMRsaT0Lgibqsg/fZHI= =1t13 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --byLs0wutDcxFdwtm-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message