Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 01:13:26 -0700 From: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> To: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to start clean install again? Message-ID: <4121BE26.2040503@att.net> In-Reply-To: <20040816212834.5c3920b3.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <41215D7F.902@att.net> <20040816212834.5c3920b3.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. > Bill Moran wrote: > 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. > Andras Kende wrote: > Boot from CD as usual > When displaying the hard disk with FreeBSD slice click on Delete key... > Then just recreate the partition as before... > Bill, Andras: Thanks, that does the job. Much appreciated. Jay
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