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From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 1.1.5] Moron can't add another disk & other questions
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Date: 07 Sep 1994 08:10:39 GMT
Organization: Walnut Creek CD-ROM
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In-reply-to: andrewg@netcom.com's message of Sun, 4 Sep 1994 17:05:22 GMT

In article <andrewgCvM7Gz.EK0@netcom.com> andrewg@netcom.com (Andrew Ghali) writes:

   it while running.  disklabel seems unable to rectify this.  Do I have to
   format the drive?  Would that be a DOS format? or a Unix format (which is
   mentioned in the man pages but I can not find in the distribution)?
   I do have Nemeth, Snyder & Seebass in front of me but I'm still stymied.

What do you mean by "disklabel seems unable to rectify this"?  You should
be able to write a disklabel on that new drive.  Try doing an fdisk -i wd1
first and setting up partition 3 - it should derive the correct values
from the disk itself.  Then do a disklabel -w -r ... on the drive to set
it up, and you should be able to newfs it.

   PS.  What is the delta between 1.1.5 and 1.1.5.1?  Is it worth upgrading?
   How does one upgrade?  And does anybody have the source for a good yapp

Notes on why and how are all contained with the 1.1.5.1 distribution.

					JOrdan