From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 26 23:30:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA22407 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:30:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA22401 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:30:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA12404; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:29:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 23:29:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: van m fisher cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uninstalling In-Reply-To: <19971014.220444.9623.1.vmfisher@juno.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, van m fisher wrote: > Dear FreeBSD; > > I have FreeBSD on a stand alone and was wondering how I could "uninstall" > the O/S so that I can load dos back onto the hard drive to make sure all > my hardware is working. Everytime I type mount ... I run into errors. I > can't format the drive from the bios or boot from a dos disk, any ideas. > Thanks for any type of help you can give. 1. Use DOS FDISK and delete the FreeBSD (NON-DOS) partition. 2. Create the DOS partition. 3. Format as normal. You can also use a DOS boot disk and check it. What kind of errors are you running into? It would be easier for us to debug this w/o destroying FreeBSD in the process. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major