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From: Gorgonio@fee.unicamp.br
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: second IDE drive
Date: 15 Dec 1993 07:38:30 -0600
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[...]
>From: adean@spitz.ece.cmu.edu (Alexander G. Dean)
>Date: 14 Dec 1993 14:20:00 GMT
[...]
>Could someone complete this list of instructions for adding a second IDE
>drive to a NetBSD-0.9 system that already has one IDE drive?
>
>1.  Install the second drive, connecting it to the ribbon cable and the
>power supply;
>
>2.   Configure the BIOS of the machine (I use AMI) to recognize second
>drive;
>
>3.  Somehow tell NetBSD that there is a second drive, format it the way
>NEtBSD likes drives to be formatted, and graft it to the file tree.
>
>I need help with number 3. 
>
>Thank you!
>
>
First label your disk with disklabel ([Bur93]) then create the file system with newfs (newfs(8)).

Reference:


[Bur93]TSgt Dave Burgess.  Frequently asked questions 386BSD, NetBSD,
       and other BNR/2 derived operating systems. via ftp anonymous from
       hrd769.brooks.af.mil, directory pub/386bsd.faq, files FAQ_0?, Septem-
       ber 1993.

					Gorgonio

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