On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:12:47PM -0400, Rose, Brian wrote:
> 
> I just bought a hard drive and I need to add it to my already running
> NetBSD-1.5.2. When I attempt to do anything, I find that the programs
> (mbrlabel) complain about there being no disklabel. Doing research on
> disklabel, it seems I need to edit the /etc/disktab file and add an entry
> for my particular hard drive geometry.
> 
> Is there a more elegant program that will query the drive and generate a
> proper disklabel? Or am I stuck with this method?

From the Documentation and FAQs link on the web page,

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/

See section 20.8 of the NetBSD Guide:

http://www.mclink.it/personal/MG2508/nbsdeng/chap-misc.html#AEN5421

Adding a new hard disk

This section describes how to add a new hard disk to an already working
NetBSD system. In the following example a new SCSI controller and a new
hard disk, connected to the controller, will be added. If you don't need
to add a new controller, skip the relevant part and go to the hard disk
configuration. The installation of an IDE hard disk is identical; only
the device name will be different (wd# instead of sd#).
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