Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 19:46:56 -0400 From: media@ct1.nai.net To: freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Partitioning "new" hard drive?? Message-ID: <v03130300b5daf9bbfc03@[209.150.38.112]> In-Reply-To: <v03130301b5d89b1e09c3@[209.150.34.141]>
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I am running FreeBSD 3.4 on a 133 Pentium. Thanks to everyone who answered my hardware questions :) I just replaced the hard drive with a used 3G drive. I'm planning on making three partitions: DOS (Windows 95B), FreeBSD 3.4, and BeOS. (I'm checking out Be out of sheer curiosity). What is the best way to completely erase and re-partition the disk?? I've already removed the old partitions under DOS using FDISK, and then used FORMAT to format it as one 3G disk, so I could use SCANDISK to check it for problems. It's scanning now. I have used FIPS 2.0 to create a FreeBSD partition in the past when software was already installed on the primary DOS partition, but this disk should be completely empty. Should I try to create three partitions with FDISK, or is there a better way?? Also, should I use FAT or FAT32?? The disk is 3G. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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