Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.new-york.net!ritz.mordor.com!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Conner 4gig 7200 RPM drive X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Lines: 16 Organization: Mordor International Message-ID: <DL4LBE.F6F@ritz.mordor.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:21:14 GMT I'm helping someone add one of these disks to a FreeBSD 2.1 box. I can't seem to find enough information from the drive specs to generate a useful disktab entry for the drive. I checked the FAQ and it seems to rely on the fact that the user has a valid disktab to partition and label the disk. How does one go about partitioning and labeling a disk without using sysinstall? Disklabel doesn't seem to want to modify the drive at all and gives an error. Trying to run sysinstall remotely crashes the machine. :-) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451