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From: jlucas@uvi.edu (John Lucas)
Subject: Re: Configuring Disks
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Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:29:35 GMT
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In article <882844322wnr@falstaf.demon.co.uk>, robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk wrote:
>Dear All,
>I'm sure that I'm not the only one that finds slices and partitions
>fine in theory but a bastard in practice cos we can't find out how
>to calculate everything.
>
>The installation process works a treat and sorts all of this out in a
>nice, warm user friendly way. Is it possible for this package to be
>made more general and available as an online tool so that discs can be
>added without having to do battle with the current tools and work it all
>out ourselves?.
>
>If so, could this be added or can the sources for the installation tool
>be made available so that I or someone else out there can have a go
>at this?.
>
I second this sentiment. After trying everything I had read about adding a
second drive in this group and in the FAQ I thought it would be a snap, but
when I went to do it, I could not get it to work. I'm not saying that it can't
be done or the fault is not mine; but I finally performed the following
work-around:
1. Power off, open the case and pull power lead off boot disk
2. Boot installation floppy
3. Choose custom installation and prepare disk (partition label newfs)
4. Abort remaining installation
5. Power off, reconnect real boot drive. Power on.
6. Edit disklabel and perform newfs on new partitions
7. fsck and mount new partitions
The best that can be said for this is that it works, and that the installation
tool can at least be used by mortals.
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