From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 21 5:48:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD1111525D for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 05:48:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@tourneyland.com) Received: from abc ([216.62.177.1]) by mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.05.19.16.06.p6) with SMTP id <0FIE00FIYU5LD1@mta1.rcsntx.swbell.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 07:46:34 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 07:45:37 -0500 From: chris@tourneyland.com Subject: Preparing for a reinstallation X-Sender: pop992333@mail.9netave.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <3.0.6.32.19990921074537.007e28f0@mail.9netave.net> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have to reinstall BSD on a machine of mine, and I'm getting some vague warnings from a FreeBSD 'expert' (HAH!) friend of mine. (The reason I have to reinstall is - well, never mind, but my friend is never telnetting in again). He's saying that FereBSD won't create the file system unless the disk is formatted and clean, and that I have to format it from DOS, but that DOS won't format it if it had FreeBSd partitions, etc, etc. He never did tell me how to solve this problem. Yikes! Does anyone know what I should do? I couldn't find anything in the docs about reinstallation. Thanks, Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message