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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ZIP drive in FreeBSD
Date: 27 Aug 1995 16:14:46 GMT
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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awan@hathor.mch.sni.de (Hans Wander) wrote:
>Please give me some hints or a pointer to a document like
>"how_to_prepare_additional_disks_for_use_with_FreeBSD_step_by_step.txt"

There isn't one yet, I'm afraid.  However, if you run disklabel and newfs
(see man pages for both) by hand on it, you'll probably not have too much
trouble.

>is very user friendly (menu driven and fool proof);
>why not in a running system?

The integration to make that happen still hasn't been fully finished.

>flexible than FreeBSD install: I can spawn a shell on a second
>virtual screen with all shell facilities, even nfs mount a remote
>Linux machine and execute commands locally not yet available.

This is all slated to improve with the 2.1 install.

						Jordan