Re: adding a second hard drive

2005-11-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dave Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To solve a problem I'm having with /var running out of space, I decided to add a second hard drive. I found info at freebsd.org on adding disks using sysinstall and followed the advice. The old disk is a Maxtor 6Y080L0 80G as ad0 and the new disk is

Re: adding a second hard drive

2005-11-11 Thread Dave Webster
Thank you for the reply. Your recommendation has worked and I now have an additional hard drive on my system. I was able to straighten out the original drive from some backups. Every challenge in FreeBSD is such an incredible learning experience. Thanks once again. Dave On Fri, 2005-11-11 at

adding a second hard drive

2005-11-10 Thread Dave Webster
To solve a problem I'm having with /var running out of space, I decided to add a second hard drive. I found info at freebsd.org on adding disks using sysinstall and followed the advice. The old disk is a Maxtor 6Y080L0 80G as ad0 and the new disk is a Maxtor 6Y120P0 as ad3. I ran sysinstall,

Re: Problems adding a second hard drive

2004-01-09 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Keith McKay wrote: I got a 3.1Gig hard drive and thought I'd add it to the FreBSD box and since 4.9 had just been released I'd start from scratch and install that as well. Is the second HD just for data? If so you could use /stand/sysinstall to add it. After it is setup I

Re: Problems adding a second hard drive

2004-01-09 Thread Keith McKay
a second hard drive On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Keith McKay wrote: I got a 3.1Gig hard drive and thought I'd add it to the FreBSD box and since 4.9 had just been released I'd start from scratch and install that as well. Is the second HD just for data? If so you could use /stand/sysinstall

Problems adding a second hard drive

2004-01-08 Thread Keith McKay
Hi all I had installed FreeBSD 4.7 on an old pentium I 100MHz with 128Meg RAM and a 2Gig Hard drive. It worked, albeit a little slow but perfectly usable for experimenting with and learningFreeBSD, and surfing the net. I got a 3.1Gig hard drive and thought I'd add it to the FreBSD box and since

Re: Problems adding a second hard drive

2004-01-08 Thread Mike Maltese
It took me a little time to figure how to do this but I managed (or so I thought) to install FreeBSD. However although I can see both drives during the installation if I do a df all that is displayed is ad0s with no information on ad2s. Also I cannot install any more programms since it says