From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 18:16:40 2004 Return-Path: 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 5A8C016A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 18:16:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5EC443D58 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 18:16:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com (frontend2.internal [10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98BD4C3E24B for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:16:38 -0500 (EST) X-Sasl-enc: likONlIhYqYdE4hFHD25mQ 1102011396 Received: from gumby.localhost (unknown [80.41.59.59]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC88570362 for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:16:36 -0500 (EST) From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 18:17:33 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <20041201113710.78126.qmail@cbo.his.ro> In-Reply-To: <20041201113710.78126.qmail@cbo.his.ro> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412021817.33600.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: a little problem!!!!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 18:16:40 -0000 On Wednesday 01 December 2004 11:37, MarC wrote: > hello, my name is marc and i'm from Romania. > I have a little problem: i just bought a laptop Compaq Presario 1200, old > laptop, and my operating system is FreeBSD. I wanted to format it and i > don't know how. In Bios this feature insn't. Please tell me a list of > commands in FreeBSD how do I format my hard-disk....and even other > sugestions.ok? You probably dont need to do this, formating is a standard part of the FreeBSD installation process. And you can't just format the disk, it's a three stage process 1 - create a primary partition for the BSD slice 2 - create BSD partitions in the slice 3 - format the partitions but the installation program will take you through all that.