Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 01:06:18 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Scott Voegtlin <davedealer2000@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net> Subject: Re: Reformt to a FAT Paritition Message-ID: <20020314060618.ACDBBBA05@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20020313151226.4572.qmail@web13007.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020313151226.4572.qmail@web13007.mail.yahoo.com>
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The best approach I've found for this sort of thing is to just zero out the
partitions and/or the entire disk, depending on what you want to recover.
Then start the install for the new O/S you want to install.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0c /* entire disk */ or
dd if=/dev/zero of=?dev/ad0cs2 /* one partition */
You could give a block count, but I usually don't, I just count to 10 and
then ^C it. it's really only the first block or two that you need to zero
out.
Once you do that, the install of whatever O/S you like will see the disk
and/or partition as unallocated and be happy to allocate it for you.
Scott-- If you've already blown away FreeBSD, and you have the disks, then
use the disk 2 (the rescue disk) to zero it; if not, you'll have to
re-install FreeBSD long enough to take itself off.
PS to Scott: Why would you change it over to FAT32? The NT file system is
vastly superior; in some respects it's actually better than the FreeBSD file
system, as it's a journaling filesystem and thus doesn't need to "scan &
repair" after a bad shutdown. It's just criminal to install NT on FAT32,
IMHO. Not that that has anything to do with FreeBSD.
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 10:12 am, Scott Voegtlin wrote:
| Howdy
|
| I'm sorry to be a pain in the ass, but I'm absolutely desperate.. I've been
| reading through the manual and the "stuff" that came along with the OS, but
| I've stuck. I've decided that the machine I was originally going to operate
| a BsD server on is no longer adequet for my purposes.. so I was told to
| uninstall BsD on it, and format the drive back to a FAT32, and put Windows
| NT (I know, I know.. what a pain) back on it.
|
| I've installed BsD on this machine, however, I can't seem to get it off...
| How do I format the drive back to a FAT32?
|
| Thanks for your time
|
| Scott
|
|
|
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