From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 27 21: 1:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B2915094 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 21:01:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tarika@ibm.net) Received: from parwati.ibm.net (slip202-135-22-120.sy.au.ibm.net [202.135.22.120]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id EAA96224 for ; Fri, 28 May 1999 04:01:07 GMT Received: (from tarika@localhost) by parwati.ibm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA01917 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 May 1999 11:01:26 +0700 (ICT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Disposition-Notification-To: tarika@parwati.ibm.net X-Chameleon-Return-To: tarika@parwati.ibm.net X-XFmail-Return-To: tarika@parwati.ibm.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 11:01:24 +0700 (ICT) Reply-To: tarika@ibm.net From: User tarika To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: hard disk: dos and freebsd term Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, i am using freebsd since 2.1-RELEASE. prior this, i was using os/2 warp but at present i am using 3.1-RELEASE. i have some thing to ask here. in hpfs, before using any hard disk, one needs to do a partition and format each partitions created. in ufs, what is the steps or sequence of actions to do with hard disk, assuming that the hard disk is a freshy prepared from a factory, in order that one can use the disk ? thanks in advance. with best regards, pirat sriyotha Date: 28-May-99 Time: 10:49:45 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message