From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Nov 1 15:14:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95F4537B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:14:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DFA743E6E for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:14:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (8bfb4adefef8d17a74888ef436b184dd@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA1N4HUn004530; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:04:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:04:17 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Justyn K Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very dumb question In-Reply-To: <3DBB8406.3000401@dlance.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Justyn K wrote: > I'm wanting to reinstall freebsd 4.7 completely from scartch but I broke > my floppy drive and I really dont think my cdrom is bootable. I have > tried /stand/sysinstall but it doesent completely erase the old > filesystem. Am I doing something wrong? > Actually no, you're not. It's just that you can't do what you're trying to do--install a new system from /stand/sysinstall on a running system. You'll get all the files overwritten, but not new filesystems. It's sort of like doing a binary upgrade. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message