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 > > Robert > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > . > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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