Okay so now I have Fdisk the second hard drive I need to be able to put stuff on it. I realize that with BSD everything is a file, but coming
from a windoze background I tend to think of this /var and /usr as a directory or a folder. It helps me keep things straight. So basically I need
to create a directory on the second hard drive. Type /stand/sysinstall at the prompt and let it take me back to the main menu like in Fig.1. I
am going to the Configure line just as before. The difference is I am going to the disk label editor.
Fig.7
I am also going to select the second drive again
Fig.3
I am now going to create a directory .Press C. Please note these images are from the BSD handbook and details differ just slightly from
what I had to do with mine.
Fig.8
I wanted mine to use all of the space available on it. So I enter a repeat of the block numbers on mine. If you want a smaller partition
you can enter a lesser number. If you are specifying your partition in Megabytes enter the number with a suffix of MB. If you are partitioning
in Gigabytes you can use a suffix of G.
Fig.9
Once I had setup the partition size I needed to tell it what type of partition is going there. I have two choices. File System and Swap. I
am using file system. The swap partition already exists on my first hard drive. Swap files are similar to the virtual memory space for windows.
If you want to put directories and files on the hard drive you should use the file system selection.
Fig.10
Now I want to specify a mount point. A mount point is the directory that is picked up when the system boots. The main ones are / (root directory),
swap (virtual memory), /var (it is the log and spool file. Hangs onto temporary but important stuff), /usr (program files,utlities, applications),
and /tmp (temporary files that aren't real important). You can create your own mount point. That is what I did I created /newusr ( new user ).
Fig.11
If you setup multiple mount points it will look like this.
Fig.12
I had setup one so imagine only one line under the part header ad1s1a and the mount header showing /newusr. The size was the maximum
allowed on the hard drive. And the Newfs ( file system type ) would have shown UFS, this is BSD version of FAT32. You don't need to
know much more than that about file system types, except that the differences are why you cant run windows directly on BSD or vice versa.
It is like putting Honda parts in a Chevy. Okay I have my partition. I want to make it permanent. Press W to write those changes. just
like Fig. 5. Then press Q to quit and exit out of /stand/sysinstall. Once that is done you have completed the hard drive. Next we put stuff on it.
