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From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> wrote:

> 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.

During the reinstall, when it comes time to slice the disk with fdisk,
simply delete the previous slice and recreate it.  That will blow away
anything that existed before.

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