Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 08:45:38 +0300 From: kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio) To: "Andrew Webster" <awebster@dataradio.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to add a 2nd disk Message-ID: <v0153052bac6c4c34d706@[130.234.41.39]>
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At 17:44 31/8/95, Andrew Webster wrote: >I've been banging my head against the wall for the past hour trying to add >a 2nd IDE drive to an existing FreeBSD 2.0.5 system, and just > >Under freebsd 2.0, sysinstall allowed you to partition a disk and label it >without doing anything else. Under 2.0.5, you have to commit the >operation, Do like this: 1. boot from install floppy. 2. fdisk, disklabel the new disk and define one partition as root (/) disk (and one for /usr if you have 2 partitions 3. commit and define custom install and install for example only the /usr/games to the new disk 4. boot 5. edit fstab 6. mount -a 7. delete everything from the new disk And you will have a new empty installed disk. Seppo -- +-- Seppo Kallio ----- kallio@jyu.fi ---+ ! Computing Center ! Fax +358-41-603611 Phone +358-41-603606 ! ! University of Jyvaskyla ! http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio ! +-- Finland --+-- 62.14N 25.44E -- +
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