From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 19:20:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA00216 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 19:20:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA00211 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 19:20:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA25756; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 19:02:28 -0700 Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 19:02:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Matthew Z. Stout" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Need Help!!! In-Reply-To: <317FC95A.200F@xanadu2.net> 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 Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Matthew Z. Stout wrote: > I have sent several pieces of e-mail in the past few days, and am in > desperate need of a reply. I need to know the exact procedure for > preparing a new hard drive for use in a FreeBSD 2.1 machine. I have a > 2.2 gig SCSI-2 hard drive, and have been struggling with fdisk and > newfs for a week now. I simply need someone to outline the proper > steps for use of fdisk, newfs and mount in the installation of this > hard drive. This is stupid. Hasn't SOMEONE here installed a new disk, and could pass on some pointers with a cc: to faq@freebsd.org?? I'm frankly disappointed this isn't documented. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major