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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New harddrive how to ?
Date: 20 Sep 1996 01:47:43 +0100
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Patrik Astrom (astrom@interact.se) wrote:
: Hello !!!

: Im trying to put a second harddrive on my FreeBSD machine, but i have
: not been able to get information how to configure this new harddrive.
: This is a Wester Digital Caviar 8250 IDE drive, and i was wondering if
: someone could point out to me how to install this new drive or where
: to get information aboat it.. 

Run /stand/sysinstall, go into the custom setup and fdisk & disklabel
the new drive.  You can then put your new partitions in /etc/fstab.
I can't remember if sysinstall newfs's the partitions - if it doesn't,
do it manually :)

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....