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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cyber2.cyberstore.ca!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsserver.sfu.ca!sfu.ca!vanepp From: vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) Subject: Re: Installing a 2nd disk identical to the first Message-ID: <vanepp.757784685@sfu.ca> Keywords: disklabel Sender: news@sfu.ca Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada References: <2gdr55$4uk@news.u.washington.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 15:44:45 GMT Lines: 47 spaz@u.washington.edu (John Utz) writes: >Hi gang; > I just found the last twin of my original Connor cp30254 in Seattle. >The idea was to make the dreaded disk add as simple as possible. > And i still hosed the damn thing. > I moved the disktab.install file over to disktab. > I edited the fstab by copying the /usr and /dos entries for /dev/wd0 >and appending them to the end of the file and replacing the 0 in 'wd0 with a 1 >....hmmmm...but i made my dos partition on the 2nd drive 70 meg instead of >sixty-five so i could tell the little devils apart...maybe this was not a good >idea... > I didn't mess with the fstab.wd because it seemed to be primarily > concerned with the boot sector..which i don't *think* i want to have on my 2nd >disk...right? > OK, so this recitation makes it obvious to me that i am pretty clueless >on this key unix person skill. I just want to have room to boot MSDOSWIN for >OS/2 and not have FreeBSD cak on me because i have no room for xdm to write >it's happy little login record because my file system is full! > Any discussion of this or a brief tutorial would be appreciated...any >flames about RTFFAQ are welcome and in my opinion, deserved... > thanx mucho > john utz If your disk label on the wd1 drive does not include an "a" partition at least the FreeBSD disklabel (you don't say which you are using) will overwrite the partition table and dedicate the disk to BSD. What I did to install the second IDE is add a single cylinder "a" partition to the second drive (which also contains the /usr partition). You are best off to change the name of the second disk (by appending an "_1" perhaps?) in the disklabel so that you have two seperate disktable entries to play with for the two drives as well. Whether it needed it or not, I also put boot blocks on the second drive (exactly as the install disk, in fact this was from a modified version of the install script). Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada