Thanks for the pointer. The order is :
1 - disklaebl to partition it...
2 - newfs to format it...
3 - /etc/fstab to mount it...
Sounds like it's the same for 1.4.x and 1.5... Cool. Thanks much...

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-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: Berndt Josef Wulf [mailto:wulf@ping.net.au]
-> Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2020 4:34 PM
-> To: DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu
-> Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org
-> Subject: Re: Quick silly Multia question....
-> 
-> 
-> David Woyciesjes wrote
-> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
-> > I looked through the archive for this answer, but I didn't 
-> find it...
-> > 
-> > Here's the Q---
-> > 	Once I load NetBSD 1.4.3 on the SCSI drive hooked up to 
-> my Multia,
-> > will it automagically mount the IDE drive? Or do I have to 
-> put the mount
-> > command in rc.local? And is this the same or different 
-> under 1.5? I'll also
-> > have to look through the man pages, to find out how to 
-> reformat the IDE
-> > drive  for NetBSD, too. Or can someone point me to an 
-> easier how-to?
-> > 	What I want to end up with is the Multia booting from 
-> the SCSI, then
-> > mount the IDE drive, then start the http/ftp services, with thier
-> > directories residing on the IDE drive. Yes, one Multia for 
-> http service, and
-> > the other for ftp server. 
-> 
-> G'day,
-> 
-> before you can mount and use a new drive you have to partition the
-> drive in question using a utility such as disklabel, construct a new
-> filesystem using newfs and edit the /etc/fstab file in order to mount
-> the new partitions on next boot.
-> 
-> For more info see the the relevant man-pages and the installation
-> description for netbsd-alpha found on
-> 
-> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5/alpha/INSTALL.html
-> 
-> cheerio Berndt
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