From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 3 14:56:59 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA05098 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 14:56:59 -0700 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.Atinc.COM [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA05084 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 14:56:56 -0700 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id RAA06960; Thu, 3 Aug 1995 17:52:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 17:52:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Formating a disk from scratch.... (fwd) To: Andrew Herdman cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Aug 1995, Andrew Herdman wrote: > I wish to totally format a disk from scratch. And I need to know the > steps on formating a disk entirly for FreeBSD from step 1. I don't want > to use the installer, as it wants to install software before it even > decides it wants to build the FS, besides i want to know how to do it by > hand. fdformat /dev/rfd0 disklabel -w -r /dev/rfd0 fd1440 newfs /dev/rfd0a > > Thanks > Andrew > > Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.Org | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346