Subject: Re: Adding a hard drive to i386
To: Rose, Brian <Brian.Rose@icn.siemens.com>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/27/2002 22:09:35
> Subject: Adding a hard drive to i386
>
>
> 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

yes

disklabel -I -i <drive name>
then type ? for help

:)