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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech2!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!io.org!torfree!rogers.com!mail.rogers.com!usenet From: blau@mail.rogers.com (Benjamin Lau) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SEAGATE DISK Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 20:38:32 GMT Organization: Rogers Communications Inc. Lines: 53 Message-ID: <49ifre$i5p@mail.Rogers.Com> References: <49bng3$r4s@titan.ci.ua.pt> NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.146.58.8 X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 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. 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