From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 25 3:12:40 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 1400037B400 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 03:12:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC3B43E6A for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 03:12:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-67.28.73.27.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([67.28.73.27] helo=sparky) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17Xfbm-0004dP-00; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 03:12:35 -0700 From: Jud To: "Wanda" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Grant Cooper" Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 06:12:57 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <005601c2338e$848645c0$2afececd@TCOOPER> Message-Id: Subject: Re: About FreeBSD Operating System MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1135 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 7/24/2002 11:49:07 PM, "Grant Cooper" wrote: > > > From: "Grant Cooper" > To: "Wanda" , > > Subject:Re: About FreeBSD Operating System > Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:49:07 -0600 [snip] > If your second harddrive is all ready formatted, it's probably in dos. You > don't want this. You are going to have to use the label editor(look it up in > > the hand book), similar to fdisk to partition it correctly. If you have a > > partition you want to use all ready, use the label editor to delete that > partition and reparation again using the FreeBSD label editor to create the > > Slice, again read the hand book for newbies, it tells you how to do it step > > by step. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859- 1/books/handbook/index.html [snip] Reformatting a dos partition for FreeBSD is easier than this makes it sound - it's part of the install procedure (after you've already begun), not something separate you need to do beforehand. And it's a matter of a minute or two and a few keystrokes. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message