From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 21 11:46: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt014nb6.san.rr.com (dt014nb6.san.rr.com [24.30.129.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 623CC14A0B for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:46:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt014nb6.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16618; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:45:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:45:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt014nb6.san.rr.com To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preparing for a reinstallation In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990921074537.007e28f0@mail.9netave.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 chris@tourneyland.com wrote: > 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. Your friend is a bonehead. :) FreeBSD does its own version of "formatting" called newfs, and it doesn't care what was on the drive when you started working with it. Good luck, Doug -- "My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young a man to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't even crack a smile. I said, 'If women kill me, I don't mind dyin!'" - John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues, "I Don't Know" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message