Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 06:12:57 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: "Wanda" <uglywanda@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> Subject: Re: About FreeBSD Operating System Message-ID: <FBKJWUSM08HGECBA63ZT2VCACB6OJOL.3d3fcf29@sparky> In-Reply-To: <005601c2338e$848645c0$2afececd@TCOOPER>
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7/24/2002 11:49:07 PM, "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> wrote: > > > From: "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> > To: "Wanda" <uglywanda@hotmail.com>, <freebsd- questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Subject:Re: About FreeBSD Operating System > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:49:07 -0600 [snip] > If your second harddrive is all ready formatted, it's probably in dos. You > don't want this. You are going to have to use the label editor(look it up in > > the hand book), similar to fdisk to partition it correctly. If you have a > > partition you want to use all ready, use the label editor to delete that > partition and reparation again using the FreeBSD label editor to create the > > Slice, again read the hand book for newbies, it tells you how to do it step > > by step. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859- 1/books/handbook/index.html [snip] Reformatting a dos partition for FreeBSD is easier than this makes it sound - it's part of the install procedure (after you've already begun), not something separate you need to do beforehand. And it's a matter of a minute or two and a few keystrokes. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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