Subject: Re: Adding a hard drive to i386
To: Rose, Brian <Brian.Rose@icn.siemens.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/27/2002 20:26:27
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, 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?

	See:
	http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/misc/#adding-a-disk

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