From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 1 3:12:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF0537B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 03:12:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net [65.242.152.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A1243E42 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 03:12:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net) Received: by sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 68776107A3; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 06:12:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 06:12:49 -0400 From: Jim Brown To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HI Message-ID: <20020901101249.GB89627@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Brown , questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20020901073605.14188.qmail@mail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020901073605.14188.qmail@mail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Martin Simpson [2002-09-01 03:38]: > Hi, > > I have freebsd and i have totally mucked up the partitions, > I want to reformat my hdd from the setup and i am booting from floppies as i cant boot from dos. Is there anyway i can wipe the disk & partitions and make new one completely clean? > Thankyou > MArtin > -- Boot from your floppy set (you didn't say which version you are booting), and follow the standard (or express or custom) installation options. If you aren't sharing this disk with another OS, select just one partition for your installation and follow all the defaults. You should have no trouble on the installation. If you intend to share this disk with another OS, install it first, selecting less than 100% of the disk for installation, then install FreeBSD on the remaining portion of your disk. Select the BootEasy boot manager and you are good to go. HTH, jpb === BTW, installation is fully described in the handbook- www.freebsd.org/handbook To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message