From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 1 10:53:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA24690 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 10:53:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost1.cac.washington.edu (mailhost1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA24685 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 10:53:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from s5-25-199.student.washington.edu (S5-25-199.student.washington.edu [128.95.25.199]) by mailhost1.cac.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW96.12/8.8.4+UW96.12) with SMTP id KAA29901; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 10:52:47 -0800 Message-ID: <33187AF8.23F4@u.washington.edu> Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:52:40 -0800 From: Jason Wells Organization: (soon to be) Highperformance.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Keys CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEWBIE References: <199703011756.TAA16340@ilink.nis.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sean Keys wrote: > > I wpied out my Hard Drive (your probably laughing at an old newbie question > but I need to know if there are any Low Level format utilities ,Ive tried > FDISK (and everything that goes with it) FORMAT (all in dos 6.22) ,people > say that the bios has its own format options but mine doesnt (486 DX 75 ,426 meg > HDD) If you are going to be playing with FreeBSD then you are going to be installing it. If you are going to be installing ti then you will be getting a disk image from there website. This disk image has what you need. > I'm getting another HDD to play with Linux or FreeBSD cause I really like it ! > > I would really appreciate any help you can give > > THANKS > > SEAN -- __ __ / 0\ / 0\ Thank you * Highperformance.net ) Wannabe Sysadmin * The homeless domain )-------( Jason Wells * "Pardon me sir, spare some bandwidth?" \_____/