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From: Michael Curry <mcgraw@cais.cais.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Okay, I give up.
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 16:00:43 -0500
Organization: Capital Area Internet Service, Inc.
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On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Sean Eric Fagan wrote:
> In article <4jc2sr$1da@news2.cais.com> you write:
> >How DO you add a second disk to a FreeBSD system? Sysinstall, sure and
> >begorra, will not do it -- unless there are hidden options somewhere.
>
> What kind of drive is it?
>
> This is what I did when I added a second SCSI disk (my third disk total) to
> my system:
>
> First, built a kernel that had sd0 and sd1, and booted it
> Make sure that the right drive was assigned to sd1
> Then, I did 'disklabel -r -e sd1'; this complained about some stuff, as I
> recall, but it *did* put a disklabel on it, even if it had no partitions.
> Then, I verified that it was there by "disklabel -r sd1".
> Then, I did "disklabel -r -e sd1" again, and added the partitions I wanted.
> I had to create a c partition, of course, and I also created 'a' and 'b'
> ('a' was for news, 'b' was a relatively small swap partition). 'c' was the
> entire disk.
>
> Then, I did, 'newfs /dev/sd1a'. It might have been newfs /dev/rsd1a?
>
> After that, I added /dev/sd1a to my fstab file, and it was all set.
>
> The worst problem I had was that I'd actually done a "newfs /dev/sd0e"
> originally -- that was my original news partition, it was still active, and
> my system ended up panicing ;).
It's a plain old cheap Conner 420M IDE that I just want to mount as extra
storage as /usrplus or some such.
A couple of us around this dump have been futzing around with BSD for a
few weeks because the Linux box we use as a mail server looks like it's
about to give up the ghost, and we've noticed that FreeBSD beats the hell
outa Linux for ftp service, so what the heck, might as well convert over,
and there IS the entertainment value to consider.
Anyway, yesterday it was deduced that the second drive might have to be
addressed as /dev/rwd1 instead of /dev/wd1, as far as writing a disklabel
is concerned. In a minute or two I will try that, but I want to get
through the mail first. We understand that the partitioning scheme may
work very well, and be a real stroke of genius, from one point of view
anyway, but the particulars are very different, and not, uh, all that
well-documented.
All in all, not a hard as "Return to Zork". We'll get there.
Thanks for your help.
Mike