From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 22 12:58:46 2002 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 895C837B400 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:58:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from argus.volker.de (pD9504DE7.dip.t-dialin.net [217.80.77.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB28C43E97 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:58:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@secspace.de) Received: from argus.volker.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by argus.volker.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g7MJwBQH062159 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:58:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@secspace.de) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:58:11 +0200 From: Volker Kindermann To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partitioning Question Message-Id: <20020822215811.0ed1c44b.freebsd@secspace.de> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.1claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Allan, > Now that I have fallen in love with FreeBSD, I no longer have a need > for the windows XP Partition > > I would like to erase it, format it as FreeBSD, and mount it has > /usr/home2 the easiest thing would be to use sysinstall (but as always: backup your data). Activate it with: /stand/sysintall Then go to the configuration menue and the fdisk section. There you should see two slices: your existing freebsd slice and the XP-Slice. You now should be able to delete the XP-Slice and Create a new FreeBSD Slice (the second one). Within this slice you can create the new partitions. If you want to go further into it, there's a chapter in the handbook (adding new disks). The disklabel and fdisk manpages should clearify things, also. -volker -- Please don't cc me: I read the lists and don't need your message twice :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message