From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 09:28:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA23029 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:28:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA23023 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:28:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id JAA10722 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:23:38 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id SAA19196; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 18:21:02 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA16057; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 18:21:01 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id RAA05595; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:56:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604111556.RAA05595@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: hard reading error To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:56:19 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Richard Chang" at Apr 11, 96 01:51:36 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Richard Chang wrote: > > Basically yes, if you *hardware reformat* your drive at the point i've > > marked with an (*) above. > Hmmm, would't the program in the FreeBSD installation program > before it adds the distribution after fdisk do the same thing? No. No known (to me) operating system does hardware-format the hard disk before installing. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)