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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: additional hardisk help
Date: 4 Jun 1996 16:00:12 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4op24o$gb@news.resolink.com>,
Kinson Chan <kinson@resolink.com> wrote:

>  I want to install a additional hardisk to my FreeeBSD system. What
>command should I use?

The commands involved are disklabel and newfs, but a much simpler way
is to boot the installation disk and use the visual editors there. Use
the 'w' command to write the changes to disk (when it asks you if you
know what you're doing, say yes!) and then quit the installation
before it starts installing anything.

If you don't have a boot disk around, you can use the 'sysinstall'
program in /stand; however, this requires that your kernel can execute
gzip'd executables.

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk         | jraynard@freebsd.org