From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 17 20:42:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C53A37B7BF for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 20:42:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA69844; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:42:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:42:30 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Charles Jernigan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! In-Reply-To: <38D2E60A.D803CE7D@cox-internet.com> Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Charles Jernigan wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > I have installed FreeBSD on a 2.1 gig hard drive and can not get it to > run correctly...I followed through the documentation as best I could. I > can't log on to the root, nor can I get connected to the server to run > XWindows... Feel free to give us a more detailed description of the problems you are having and we will certainly do our best to help you out! I'm sorry to hear that FreeBSD didn't fit your tastes. > Have tried to figure out how to unmount this hard drive so I > can reformat it back to the dos operating system...How do I remove this > Linux system in order for windows2000, which is on my primary drive, to > read this drive so I can format it...Please help! You shouldn't need to "remove" or "unmount" anything. You should just be able to take your Windows 2000 installation CD and start from scratch. You will need to use the Windows/DOS "fdisk" command to remove the existing "Unknown" partition that FreeBSD lives on and create a new FAT (or probably FAT32) partition for Windows to reside in. After that the (re)installation of Windows should occur normally. Hope this helps, - Ryan Thompson -- Ryan Thompson Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message