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From: gilbertd@cs.man.ac.uk (David Alan Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: SunOS Disc labels?
Date: 13 Dec 1996 19:02:04 +0000
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Hi,
  We've just put in the order for a PC to be used as an NFS server in the group
which will run FreeBSD and we are hoping to use a couple of SCSI drives
presently on Suns.  Do I have to reformat/repartition/do-anything-nasty-to
 these drives or will FreeBSD cope with the SunOS disc partitioning (Linux
will I think)?

Its just that one drive is 3GB and the other is 9GB and finding somewhere
to shove the data while the disc is rebuilt could be difficult!

Incidentally the specs of the machine are:
  P200 +64MB of RAM
  3GB EIDE drive
  Adaptec 2940UW
  Intel Ether Express Pro 100B 100MBit ether card.

and it will be serving about 12 suns via a switched hub (the suns are on
 10base-t)

Thanks in advance,

Dave

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