Newbie Question: How to add a second hard drive?

Newbie Question: How to add a second hard drive?

Post by Dan Welc » Wed, 11 Jun 1997 04:00:00



I am trying to add a news hard drive (3GB Maxtor as secondary master).
I have heard the easiest way to do this is to run /stand/sysinstall.
However, when I do this I get a "No Harddrives" error message.
Could some one please give me a step by step example of how to do
this or point me to an FAQ. The info in the BSD FAQ doesn't work.
I get a device not configured when I run disklabel.

Thanks,

Dan

 
 
 

Newbie Question: How to add a second hard drive?

Post by J Wuns » Wed, 18 Jun 1997 04:00:00



> I am trying to add a news hard drive (3GB Maxtor as secondary master).
> I get a device not configured when I run disklabel.

Well, then you gotta fix _this_ problem first.  You can't label a
drive the kernel hasn't found.  Review your boot messages, look into
your kernel config file (if you've got a custom kernel), etc.  You
didn't provide any information about this that would allow us to help
you.

Once the kernel has found the drive, go and try what the FAQ is
suggesting.

Btw., you're really going to setup a news server with IDE drives?
Awful.  Perhaps it's just a typo though.

--
cheers, J"org


Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)

 
 
 

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