final confirmation of sysinstall-method for disk addition...

[Eric Anderson]

On 11/17/06 14:22, Ensel Sharon wrote:
> First off, thanks for the help the last two days - I appreciate your
> comments very much.
> 
> 
> I am going to add my five 500 GB disks to my system today, and I am going
> to tell my adaptec card to create a 1999 GB array on them.
> 
> Therefore, the "disk" that will be presented to FreeBSD by the raid card
> will be <2TB.  This means that I should be able to use sysinstall.
> 
> My question is:
> 
> - Is there _any reason whatsoever_ that this method:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html
> 
> (top item, 17.3.1, adding a new disk to an existing system using
> sysinstall)
> 
> will not work with 6.1-RELEASE and a 1999 GB disk ?  Any chance this
> document is slightly out of date, or some minor changes that are in 6.1
> that aren't in the docs yet ?
> 
> Or can I just follow these instructions to the letter and happily add my
> disk ?
> 
> Thanks.


Why not download the recently built 6.2-RC1  disk, experiment with that, 
and report any issues you *do* hit, that way others can learn from your 
experience, and we can make FreeBSD better.

'Just do it'

Eric


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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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