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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 19:42:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrew Herdman <apollo@io.org>
To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>
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Subject: Re: Formating a disk from scratch....
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On Thu, 3 Aug 1995, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote:

> 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
> 

opps.... i suppose i should have mentioned SCSI hard disk when I made the 
request.

Feeling dumb.....
  Andrew