From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 16:46:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C8CD37B422 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 16:46:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct-hartford-us412.javanet.com ([209.150.34.161]) by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #2) id 13WSQa-000066-00 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 05 Sep 2000 19:46:56 -0400 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions From: media@ct1.nai.net Subject: Partitioning "new" hard drive?? Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 19:46:56 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am running FreeBSD 3.4 on a 133 Pentium. Thanks to everyone who answered my hardware questions :) I just replaced the hard drive with a used 3G drive. I'm planning on making three partitions: DOS (Windows 95B), FreeBSD 3.4, and BeOS. (I'm checking out Be out of sheer curiosity). What is the best way to completely erase and re-partition the disk?? I've already removed the old partitions under DOS using FDISK, and then used FORMAT to format it as one 3G disk, so I could use SCANDISK to check it for problems. It's scanning now. I have used FIPS 2.0 to create a FreeBSD partition in the past when software was already installed on the primary DOS partition, but this disk should be completely empty. Should I try to create three partitions with FDISK, or is there a better way?? Also, should I use FAT or FAT32?? The disk is 3G. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message