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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!yktnews.watson.ibm.com!chaos!nistler From: nistler@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (John Nistler) Subject: Re: Disklabelling a second drive Sender: news@rchland.ibm.com Message-ID: <1993Aug24.222331.41528@rchland.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1993 22:23:31 GMT Reply-To: john_nistler@vnet.ibm.com Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM References: <25d3c9INN52@catburg.UUCP> Nntp-Posting-Host: chaos.rchland.ibm.com Organization: IBM Rochester Lines: 9 In article <25d3c9INN52@catburg.UUCP>, boyd@catburg (Boyd Faulkner) writes: |> I am trying to add a second IDE drive to my current setup (1 IDE, 1 SCSI) |> but I can't get dsiklabel to work on the second disk. It returns |> disklabel: /dev/rwd1d: Invalid argument If you don't mind a quick and dirty fix, try this. Just disconnect your first drive and connect your second drive. I also had to change my bios config. Then boot up with the tiny unix diskette and run install, it finds any unused(read not part of a partition) and asks if you want to put BSD on it. It does the labeling and all the partitioning. No disktab, no disklabel and no worring about clobbering something because you don't know what your doing. -- John Nistler