Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 04:49:33 +0100 (CET) From: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: "Daniel C. Mahoney" <dan@wolf.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9-STABLE - need to mount USB hard drive, create partition, newfs, etc Message-ID: <20051107044607.Y2634@www.pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <20051107033108.20097.qmail@houston.wolf.com> References: <20051107033108.20097.qmail@houston.wolf.com>
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Daniel C. Mahoney wrote: > I've got a 4.9-STABLE system. I have a 250GB USB hard drive, and I'd like to > create a UFS file system on it then mount it. It had an ext2 file system on > it, but deleted it before taking it off the Linux box. > I've tried working with disklabel and fdisk, but I don't seem to be > understanding the man pages since I'm not getting anywhere. The system *is* > seeing the drive as /dev/da0. > Can anyone offer me directions on what I've got to do? Did you try # /stand/sysinstall This will give you the FreeBSD installation menu and you should be able to setup partitions and formatting. Good Luck, Uli. > -------------------------- > Dan Mahoney > dan@wolf.com > "How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven." > Robert Heinlein > "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of > life - music and cats" - Albert Schweitzer > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * *********************************************
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