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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!milo.mcs.anl.gov!xray!winans From: winans@xray.aps.anl.gov (John R. Winans) Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 Adding 2nd IDE drive? Message-ID: <CHxt0G.7Mr@mcs.anl.gov> Sender: usenet@mcs.anl.gov Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago Illinois References: <2e7roh$dl5@TAMUTS.TAMU.EDU> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1993 19:33:52 GMT Lines: 24 In article <2e7roh$dl5@TAMUTS.TAMU.EDU> Troy Thoele <tdt5238@zeus.tamu.edu> writes: >Hello netters - > >I would like to mount my second IDE drive as /pub. How do I edit/create >the disklabel and format the drive for BSD? I installed the system with >the script, so I have no idea how to do it by hand. > >Where can I get some documentation on BSD? I'm new to this, so any >suggestions welcome. man disktab man disklabel man newfs First do a "disklabel -wd1a" to see what the IDE drive says it has in terms of cylandars, sectors, tracks and so on... you will need that to build your new disktab entry. --John -- ! John Winans Advanced Photon Source (Controls) ! ! winans@phebos.aps.anl.gov Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois ! ! ! !"The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." - Tom Waits !