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From: "David B. Foulis" <dbfpyro@gmx.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: I had a small disk 500 mb and after I had already installed wanted to add another (about the same) and the system seems to think I need to make another installation with a bootable bit etc.
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>Number:         32277
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       I had a small disk 500 mb and after I had already installed wanted to add another (about the same) and the system seems to think I need to make another installation with a bootable bit etc.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          wish
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 25 14:40:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:    Sun Nov 25 15:21:21 PST 2001
>Last-Modified:  Sun Nov 25 15:21:52 PST 2001
>Originator:     David B. Foulis
>Release:        4.4
>Organization:
DBF-PYROTECHNIK
>Environment:
freebsd4.4 -release freebsd 4.4-release #0: tue sep18 11:57:08 pdt2001 rray@builder.freebsd.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/generic i386.

>Description:
I think I made a mistake trying to add another disc, it`s a SCSI disc 524 mb as a second disc (da1).
I wanted it just to add to the general capacity and hoped it would be just intigrated, but the system seemed to think that it was a new installation process that needed a new bootsector as well(when I left the sysinstall it couldn`t find any commands and through inexperience I had to just switch off which I dislike to have to do.
Both discs should (Ihope) form a single entity of disk space, which I thought would happen automatically, because of the description that bsd is not like linux where one makes  a series of partitions etc var usr home, and so on.

>How-To-Repeat:
One could just do what I descraibed above but I don`t think it is necessary, it`s a beginners problem.
>Fix:
I`d like advice on the best way to deal with a situation like this and maybe an answer to the problem of finding out how much space is available.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: des 
State-Changed-When: Sun Nov 25 15:21:21 PST 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
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