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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech2!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Portugal.EU.net!news.rccn.net!titan.ci.ua.pt!zeus.ci.ua.pt!cooker From: cooker@ci.ua.pt (Fernando Cozinheiro) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SEAGATE DISK Date: 1 Dec 1995 22:57:34 GMT Organization: Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal Lines: 70 Message-ID: <49o18u$jof@titan.ci.ua.pt> References: <49bng3$r4s@titan.ci.ua.pt> <49ifre$i5p@mail.Rogers.Com> Reply-To: Fernando.Cozinheiro@ci.ua.pt NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.ci.ua.pt X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Benjamin Lau (blau@mail.rogers.com) wrote: : Here's a trick that I remembered seeing somewhere in this newsgroup a : while ago....put a small DOS partition on the drive before you do : disklabel. And just create the BSD partition out of the rest of the : disk. : : Here's something I do if I'm adding a new disk to the box: : 1. Bring up the box in DOS and create a small (say 5 Meg) on the new : disk. This will be a primary DOS partition. : 2. Format it with DOS's format. : 3. Boot BSD and cd into /stand, if you still have it. If you don't, : the rest may not work for you. : 4. Run ./sysinstall. : 5. Select Custom, then Partition and only select the new disk. : 6. It will complain about wrong geometry...but ignore it. : 7. Highlite whatever is left on the top part of the screen (which is : marked with unused), and press "C" to create the partition, and take : the suggested block numbers as is. And make it active too. : 8. It will create a partiton with a small amount of cylinders left : over...but don't worry and don't try to use those. : 9. Press "Q" and go to Disk Label. : 10. You should see the new disk there and you can partition it the way : you want it. : 11. After you finish, just do a "W" - write and of course it will : complain not having the root partition etc etc. Again, don't worry and : just press "Exit" and/or "Quit" until you get out of SysInstall. : 12. Now, you can do "newfs" to the drives from the prompt. : : That's how I handled my new disks... : : Good luck. : Dear Benjamin: First of all, thanks by all your information. I suppose that it could be a good solution... but I can't experiment it, because my sysinstall program dumps everytime CORE when I try do run it. Do you have any idea about why this happens? Thanks again. : cooker@ci.ua.pt (Fernando Cozinheiro) wrote: : : >Dear friends: : : >I'm trying to install a SEAGATE 9 GB disk (reference ST410800N), but I : >don't succeed with fdisk or disklabel commands... Does anyone already : >succeeded with any disk of this type? : : >Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. : : >-- : >Fernando Cozinheiro http://sweet.ua.pt/~cooker/ : >System & Network Administrator Email: cooker@ci.ua.pt : >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ : >Universidade de Aveiro Phone: : >Centro de Informatica UA: +351 34 370200/Ext.2254 : >3810 Aveiro CIUA: +351 34 370345 : >Portugal Telefax: +351 34 370214 : -- Fernando Cozinheiro http://sweet.ua.pt/~cooker/ System & Network Administrator Email: cooker@ci.ua.pt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Universidade de Aveiro Phone: Centro de Informatica UA: +351 34 370200/Ext.2254 3810 Aveiro CIUA: +351 34 370345 Portugal Telefax: +351 34 370214