From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 03:44:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 D0B8416A41F for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 03:44:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 439EC43D45 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 03:44:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: from reverse-213-146-114-24.cust.kamp-dsl.de [213.146.114.24] (helo=reverse-213-146-114-24.cust.kamp-dsl.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu7) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0ML2Dk-1EYxvo120g-0004uT; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:44:28 +0100 Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 04:49:33 +0100 (CET) From: "P.U.Kruppa" X-X-Sender: root@www.pukruppa.net To: "Daniel C. Mahoney" In-Reply-To: <20051107033108.20097.qmail@houston.wolf.com> Message-ID: <20051107044607.Y2634@www.pukruppa.net> References: <20051107033108.20097.qmail@houston.wolf.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:2446dbdf8275641f979193ced594c629 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.9-STABLE - need to mount USB hard drive, create partition, newfs, etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 03:44:30 -0000 On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Daniel C. Mahoney wrote: > I've got a 4.9-STABLE system. I have a 250GB USB hard drive, and I'd like to > create a UFS file system on it then mount it. It had an ext2 file system on > it, but deleted it before taking it off the Linux box. > I've tried working with disklabel and fdisk, but I don't seem to be > understanding the man pages since I'm not getting anywhere. The system *is* > seeing the drive as /dev/da0. > Can anyone offer me directions on what I've got to do? Did you try # /stand/sysinstall This will give you the FreeBSD installation menu and you should be able to setup partitions and formatting. Good Luck, Uli. > -------------------------- > Dan Mahoney > dan@wolf.com > "How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven." > Robert Heinlein > "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of > life - music and cats" - Albert Schweitzer > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > ********************************************* * Peter Ulrich Kruppa - Wuppertal - Germany * *********************************************