Re: Offtopc appearl for disktab help

[Alex Perez]

Pete French wrote:
> I dont suppose any of you old OpenStep type people know
> anything about writing disktab entries do you ? I have installed
> OS onto an IDE drive onto a 2000M fdisk partition at the start. I;ve since
> epxnaded that to 8000M, and now I want to write a disktab to let me
> get at the other 6000M as partitions b, c and d.
>
> I mnow I write a diskatb to do it, and that I should then somehow
> write this new distab to the driev using /usr/etc/disk - but the
> manpage for 'disk' is rather unclear, and if I get it wrong I can
> trash the entire drive. All the example disktab entires I have
> found are for SCSI drives.
>
> Any advice at all ?

I wrote one when I installed an 18GB Seagate Barracuda HD in my tricked 
out 128MB Turbo Color NeXTstation about six or eight months ago...I can 
try to dig up what I have and send it to you...the way I learned how to 
make a disktab for my disk was by searching google, and I managed to 
find a (very old, but still 100% useful) document that went over making 
disktabs. I don't have a link or bookmark for it, but I suggest you 
search around for it.