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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.ecrc.de!news.mch.sni.de!horus.mch.sni.de!hathor.mch.sni.de!not-for-mail From: awan@hathor.mch.sni.de (Hans Wander) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: ZIP drive in FreeBSD Date: 27 Aug 1995 10:58:20 +0200 Organization: Siemens Nixdorf AG Lines: 29 Message-ID: <41pc3c$15j@hathor.mch.sni.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hathor.mch.sni.de Hi folks, I'm having trouble adding an additional SCSI drive to my installed and running FreeBSD 2.0.5 system. I finally got my Iomega zip drive and would like to prepare a 100Mb disk for use with FreeBSD. I've read the diskspace.FAQ and the manpages for fdisk and disklabel: now I'm more confused than before reading. Please give me some hints or a pointer to a document like "how_to_prepare_additional_disks_for_use_with_FreeBSD_step_by_step.txt" btw: partitioning and labelling in the installation phase is very user friendly (menu driven and fool proof); why not in a running system? Hans PS: I think the installation method of Slackware to be much more flexible than FreeBSD install: I can spawn a shell on a second virtual screen with all shell facilities, even nfs mount a remote Linux machine and execute commands locally not yet available. -- Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme Carl Wery Str. 22, 81739 Muenchen, Germany Tel.: + 49 (89) 636-43496, FAX: + 49 (89) 636-40926 e-mail: Hans.Wander@mch.sni.de