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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ZIP drive in FreeBSD Date: 27 Aug 1995 16:14:46 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 21 Message-ID: <41q5lm$p2q@reason.cdrom.com> References: <41pc3c$15j@hathor.mch.sni.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: awan@hathor.mch.sni.de X-URL: news:41pc3c$15j@hathor.mch.sni.de awan@hathor.mch.sni.de (Hans Wander) wrote: >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" There isn't one yet, I'm afraid. However, if you run disklabel and newfs (see man pages for both) by hand on it, you'll probably not have too much trouble. >is very user friendly (menu driven and fool proof); >why not in a running system? The integration to make that happen still hasn't been fully finished. >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. This is all slated to improve with the 2.1 install. Jordan