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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.wwa.com!buffnet2.buffnet.net!buffnet3!shovey From: shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: All I want for Xmas aka HELP! Date: 6 Dec 1995 12:22:16 GMT Organization: BuffNET Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4a41to$fj9@buffnet2.buffnet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: buffnet3.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I had a drive blow out on my in 2.0.5R and neither it not 2.1 seem to have any utility for adding a drive other than to use disklabel etc which is too archane. What I ended up having to do was save out my etc, run the 2.1 install disk (2.0.5's wouldnt do) and partition and label the drive with that, then abort it at the install phase. Then I had to recover my /etc contents. It would be so very nice if some network guru took the chunks of code out of the sysinstall for partitioning and disklabeling (I will manuall newfs is need be) and maed a utility! <hint hint!> Would make it more like SCO etc which is chuck full of user friend routines of that nature! ------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net root@buffnet.net