Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:15:06 +0000 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating a FAT32 on new drive... Message-ID: <200411172215.06532.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <20041117135330.T37664@bsd.billschoolcraft.com> References: <20041117135330.T37664@bsd.billschoolcraft.com>
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On Wednesday 17 November 2004 21:59, Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > hello family, > > I have some drives that I've brought home for repair. > > I have a Promise IDE controller installed with dual ports and two > 36" IDE ribbons attached to the Promise controller and snaking out > an open CDROM slot, along with a powersupply leads. > > My FreeBSD box boots fine, the Promise card shows up and my first > drive came up as /dev/ad5. > > I used "sysinstall" to delete the old partitions and now need to > simple create one big "FAT32" partition/drive and see if things > work when this drive is placed back into a machine at work. I use SystemRescueCd for this kind of thing. http://www.sysresccd.org/ It's a Gentoo live cd with a load of useful utilitys, including qtparted.
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