mnesia schema and table copy to other nodes

[Praveen Ray]

Hi
I've recently started learning erlang/mnesia and need help setting up mnesia
on two nodes. Here's the series of steps (on same host):
$cd ~/test/foo
$erl -sname foo -setcookie chip_cookie

   1. mnesia:create_schema([node()]).
   2. mnesia:start().
   3. rd(person, {name,age}).
   4.
   mnesia:create_table(person,[{attributes,record_info(fields,person)},{disc_copies,[node()]}]).
   5. mnesia:dirty_write(#person{name="george", age=30}).

# in another window, on same host:
$cd ~/test/bar
$erl -sname bar -setcookie chip_cookie
1> mnesia:start().
#back on foo node:
net_adm:ping('foo@*hostname*').
*pong*
mnesia:add_table_copy(schema, 'bar@*hostname*', disc_copies).
*{aborted,{badarg,schema,disc_copies}} <--- WHY DOES THIS FAIL?*
mnesia:add_table_copy(schema, 'bar@*hostname*', ram_copies).
*{atomic,ok}*
mnesia:add_table_copy(person, 'bar@*hostname*', disc_copies).
*{atomic,ok}*
*# back on node bar*
mnesia:info().
*It doesn't show the 'person' table that was copied from foo. Why is that?*
How can I add more nodes to an existing mnesia database which was created
with only one node ie. mnesia:create_schema([node()]).
Thanks
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