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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adding a disk with v2.1.0?
Date: 14 Apr 1997 09:25:38 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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To: bob@waterw.com (Bob Applegate)
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[Posted and mailed]
In article <5im28a$iau@sea.waterw.com>,
bob@waterw.com (Bob Applegate) writes:
> Has anyone ever successfully used disklabel to add a secondary
> drive? I've spent hugr amounts of time with various versions of
> FreeBSD trying to do this, and usually my only option is to
> pretend it is a fresh install, use the sysinstall tool to
> do all the work, then remove everything I don't need... ARRRGGHH!!
There's nothing stopping you from using sysinstall on a running
system and just doing the fdisk/label bit. In fact, this is the
way I do it these days - you don't have to "work out the numbers" :)
> Please reply via private email.
>
> Bob
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !