Re: Problems adding a second hard drive
Yes. I was going to use it just for data. I'll try adding it to /etc/fstab. Thanks for the tip Keith - Original Message - From: "Francisco Reyes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Keith McKay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 2:01 PM Subject: Re: Problems adding 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 to add it. After it is setup I think > you need to manually add it to /etc/fstab. > > Or where you trying to have a dual boot situation? > ___ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problems adding 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 to add it. After it is setup I think you need to manually add it to /etc/fstab. Or where you trying to have a dual boot situation? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problems adding a second hard drive
> 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 df only shows mounted filesytems. > /usr is full. I'm begining to wonder if the ad2s drive is being used at > all. When I installed FreeBSD I used the auto defaults for both drives. > Was this the right thing to do? Any hints or tips would be usefull. If you configured the second drive at install time, it should be usable. Try mounting a partition to /mnt. To find the partition scheme, run 'disklabel ad2'. Any partition of type 4.2BSD is usable. Mike ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problems adding a second hard drive
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 21:02:01 - "Keith McKay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 4.9 had just been released I'd start from scratch and > install that as well. > > 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/usr is full. I'm begining to wonder if the ad2s drive > is being used at all. When I installed FreeBSD I used the auto > defaults for both drives. Was this the right thing to do? Any hints > or tips would be usefull. > > Thanks > Keith McKay Hi Keith, Did you choose to install the BootMgr when you installed 4.7 and/or 4.9? If you did, you should get an option to select which drive to boot from, when the computer boots up. If not, you can add one after installation with the program 'boot0cfg'. It's probably best to make sure to add it to both drives :) If all you want to do is access the contents of your second (4.9) drive when you're booted into 4.7 (or vice versa) you have to create mount points and mount the partitions of your other drive somewhere in your file system. The easiest way to do this is probably to use 'mkdir' to create a directory for the mount point, edit the file '/etc/fstab' and add the device name and the mount point, then use 'mount '. (And unless you specify 'noauto' in /etc/fstab, it will automatically be mounted each time you reboot, as well.) See the respective man pages for all of these for more information. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
