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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!startide.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ZIP drive in FreeBSD Date: 30 Aug 1995 22:29:01 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 60 Message-ID: <422ond$q19@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <41pc3c$15j@hathor.mch.sni.de> <41q5lm$p2q@reason.cdrom.com> <41qkia$1l5@hathor.mch.sni.de> <422869$cg3@globe.indirect.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: startide.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Fred Fish (fnf@fishpond) had the courage to say: : In article <41qkia$1l5@hathor.mch.sni.de>, : Hans Wander <awan@hathor.mch.sni.de> wrote: : >whenever I try to write a label, the result is: : >disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Operation not supported by device : > : >it's very frustrating. : Yes! I just ran into this myself yesterday when trying to install a second : drive on an existing FreeBSD 2.0.5 system. I ended up having to reinstall : the entire system and have it partition and label both drives during the : install. This wasn't too bad since I hadn't really done anything to the : system yet after installing it originally. Aaaaaaaahhhh!!! Am I the _ONLY_ one here who uses the wizard mode of the partition/disklabel options in the 2.0.5 installer? You _don't_ have to reinstall the entire system in order to partition a drive with /stand/sysinstall. True, it won't do _everything_ for you unless you select a complete install, but you can make it partition and label your drive, which are arguably the trickiest parts. All you have to do is this: - Run sysinstall (as root, monkey boy). - Go to the partition table editor. - Select the drive you want to use. - Partition it as you please. - When you've got it set up the way you like it, press 'w' to get into wizard mode. - At the wizard mode prompt, type 'write.' The sysinstall program should write the new partition table to the disk. - Type 'quit' to leave wizard mode. - Exit the partition editor. - Go to the disklabel editor. - Set up the label as you please. - Type 'w' to get into wizard mode again. - Type 'write' to write the label. - Quit out of wizard mode. - Quit the label editor. - Quit sysinstall. All you have to do now is newfs the partitions you've just created and add them to /etc/fstab. This part is simple enough that you don't need sysinstall to do it. I added a disk to my system not too long ago, and this is how I partitioned it. Worked like a charm. -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~ "Welcome to All Things BSDish! If it's not BSDish, it's crap!" ~~~~~~~