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From: fnf@fishpond (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ZIP drive in FreeBSD
Date: 31 Aug 1995 07:43:27 GMT
Organization: Amiga Library Services
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References: <41pc3c$15j@hathor.mch.sni.de> <41qkia$1l5@hathor.mch.sni.de> <422869$cg3@globe.indirect.com> <422ond$q19@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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In article <422ond$q19@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>,
Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>Aaaaaaaahhhh!!! Am I the _ONLY_ one here who uses the wizard mode of the
>partition/disklabel options in the 2.0.5 installer? You _don't_ have
>to reinstall the entire system in order to partition a drive with
> [disk installation procedure omitted]
>I added a disk to my system not too long ago, and this is how I
>partitioned it. Worked like a charm.

Ah, the wonders of Unix.  So far I've gotten about half a dozen responses
to this question with suggested solutions, all of them different, yet all
of them quite plausibly correct (haven't tried them yet).

-Fred
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