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Date:      Mon, 08 Jul 2002 15:45:15 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        RoKlein@roklein.de
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive.
Message-ID:  <3D2A15FB.7010501@owt.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207081308410.29644-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <3D2A0835.9000608@owt.com> <200207082353.24230.RoKlein@roklein.de>

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Robert Klein wrote:

> On Montag, 8. Juli 2002 23:46, Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
>>Julian Elischer wrote:
>>
>>>The machiine has 1 CD drive and no floppy..
>>>
> ------------------------------------^^
> 
> 
>>All of the manufacturers have a program that will do that. Many of
>>them even produce a bootable floppy. Check their support web page.
>>
> 
> which leaves the "no floppy" problem..  Perhaps you could use the
> bootable floppy from the manufacturer as the "el torito boot
> image" for a CD-R you create on another machine..


So mount it temporarily on another machine. You don't even need them 
in the assigned bios tables. When I first started using FreeBSD, I 
tried the dangerous option and the system would not get past checking 
the initial hardware. I had to change the HD assignment to none and ll 
format the disk.

Kent


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