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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!husc-news.harvard.edu!husc.harvard.edu!scws6!haley Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Installing another IDE drive Message-ID: <haley.754352902@scws6> From: haley@scws6.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) Date: 26 Nov 93 22:28:22 GMT References: <2cv86k$4b8@corax.udac.uu.se> Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts NNTP-Posting-Host: scws6.harvard.edu Lines: 24 d93jno@csd.uu.se (Jonas Nordin) writes: >My question is: How do I install it under NetBSD (v0.9)? >From what I've understood from the FAQ, I should first disklabel it using >a disktype from the /etc/disktab file. More correctly, you need to define a disktab entry for your drive if there isn't one you want to use. It is important to realize that you are not bound by those entries. If one looks good though, using it will probably be o.k. >In the disktab file I have to define how big and wich partitions I should >have on my HD. >I can then use newfs to make the disk readable from NetBSD. Right. Then you use fsck to check the raw partitions, which should come up with no complaints. >Is this correct, seems rather complicated to me..... It's a bit more complicated, but it allows enormous flexibility. The MS-DOS programs do the same thing, but they group more of it. Spiffier interface is all, really. -- Hacksaw