Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:09:40 -0600 From: dunhamal@cuug.ab.ca (Alan Dunham 284-9866) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: dos + FreeBSD 2.1 on IDE, dos needs format Message-ID: <199609161809.MAA13631@sun.cuug.ab.ca>
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Hi: I have just installed FreeBSD 2.1 on a new IDE disk (Fireball 1.2).
I set up a 400Mb partition for DOS before I installed FreeBSD on the
rest of the drive. But I didn't format C: first (not thinking ahead,
I guess). Now that FreeBSD is up, I am afraid to format C: because I
don't trust DOS software.
I have an archive of 386bsd & FreeBSD newsgroups since Aug 92. I can
almost always find a solution to any problem I have by looking there.
But it seems that no one else has made this mistake.
-Is there a way of doing a DOS format from BSD on /dev/rwd0s1?
-If I format C:, will it leave my BSD partition (slice) intact?
-If I change the CMOS to tell it that C: has only 813 cylinders instead
of the actual 2484, then will format C: leave BSD alone?
-Will a dos format destroy the BSD boot manager & boot blocks &
disklabel?
thanks,
Al
Alan Dunham /\ The finest views are only seen
dunhamal@cuug.ab.ca /\ \ from the hardest routes.
Calgary, Alberta / \ \ A. F. Mummery
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