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From: uwp@cs.tu-berlin.de (Udo Wolter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Adding a SCSI disk
Date: 24 Jan 1994 17:27:14 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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Hi !
I get a new disk next week. It's a 1068MB disk. Now I have many
questions:
In the FreeBSD manual is mentioned that FreeBSD can only access
partitions which doesn't have more than 1024MB. So how can I use
the full disk ? Is there any way to make 2 534MB partitions accessible ?
Next question is: Are there problems while booting ? I also have a 639MB
disk yet, where now DOS & FreeBSD resides on. I want to change the whole
system, so that DOS get's the whole 639MB disk and FreeBSD gets the
1068MB disk. Is it possible to boot both disks with a bootmananger
like OS-BS ? And is it possible to make the DOS disk accessible
from FreeBSD (there was a discussion in the news I think) ?
Another question concerns the backup before changing the disks. Which
format should I use to backup the old FreeBSD partition ? Should I
use dump or tar ? What evil things can happen when I'm using dump and
try to restore the dump onto a disk which have a total different
partitioning ? By the way, do I have to format the disk before I can
use it under FreeBSD ? Or does newfs formatting it ? Can anyone give
me an example when he added another disk ?
Thanx,
Udo
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