From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 8 15:45:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12CDC37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB8E43E4A for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:45:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA28651; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:45:17 -0700 Message-ID: <3D2A15FB.7010501@owt.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 15:45:15 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: RoKlein@roklein.de Cc: Julian Elischer , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: offtopic: low level format of IDE drive. References: <3D2A0835.9000608@owt.com> <200207082353.24230.RoKlein@roklein.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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