Subject: Re: configuring new disk
To: Mark Hattarki <gandhiji@locutus.csres.utexas.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/02/2000 21:50:57
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:16:32AM -0600, Mark Hattarki wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> 	So when you add an IDE disk, what commands do I use to configure
> the drive so that it is mountable? The kernel sees the drive, but it is
> not "configured."

First use disklabel to install a label on the disk:
disklabel wdx > toto
vi toto
inside vi, create a new partition (for example 'a') as big as 'd'
and remplace "unused 0 0" with "4.2BSD 0 0 0"
disklabel -rR wdx toto
now you should be able to use partition a of your new disk:
newfs /dev/rwdxa

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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