From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 01:28:13 2004 Return-Path: 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 A634916A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:28:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kende.com (ns1.kende.com [66.17.131.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 463A843D1D for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:28:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andras@kende.com) Received: (qmail 92781 invoked by uid 0); 17 Aug 2004 01:28:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO a) (24.1.130.29) by ns1.kende.com with SMTP; 17 Aug 2004 01:28:24 -0000 From: "Andras Kende" To: "'Jay O'Brien'" , "'FreeBSD - questions'" Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 20:28:13 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: <41215D7F.902@att.net> Thread-Index: AcSD+JSD3cjBF2rkRc24z+de9NEjAAAAHPdg Message-Id: <20040817012813.463A843D1D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: How to start clean install again? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:28:13 -0000 -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jay O'Brien Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 8:21 PM To: FreeBSD - questions Subject: How to start clean install again? What's the best way to erase an installation of FreeBSD completely from a HD and start over? I'm installing 4.10 from am ISO CD, and it installs fine. However, I would like to start over from scratch and it "remembers" some of what was on the HD from the last install. If I were in Windows/DOS I would just "format C:" but that doesn't seem to be an option here. Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, CA USA _______________________________________________ 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" Jay, Boot from CD as usual at When displaying the hard disk with FreeBSD slice click on Delete key... Then just recreate the partition as before... Andras Kende http://www.kende.com