Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:45:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Preparing for a reinstallation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909211145000.16486-100000@dt014nb6.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990921074537.007e28f0@mail.9netave.net>
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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
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