From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 17 14:17:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA12144 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 May 1997 14:17:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA12139 for ; Sat, 17 May 1997 14:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de [141.31.166.22]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA13712 for ; Sat, 17 May 1997 14:17:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from helbig@localhost) by helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA00643; Sat, 17 May 1997 23:16:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig Message-Id: <199705172116.XAA00643@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Subject: Re: Reinstalling or Unistalling FreeBSD (but I still am going to use it) In-Reply-To: <337DFD28.51B2@worldnet.att.net> from Jason at "May 17, 97 02:47:04 pm" To: jlj.mitchell.max@worldnet.att.net Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 23:16:32 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I installed FreeBSD with the Full Development setup and I usually > install with custom. Now I'm having full file system problems and want > to start from sub-scratch. How do I re/uninstall FreeBSD. DOn't get this > wrong but I love FreeBSD:) So do I, after I reinstalled it three times :-) (with periods of fighting with my Linux Distribution in between)! I put all the customized files (kernel configuration file, /etc/sysconfig ..) in my home directory and saved it on a floppy. # tar -czf /dev/fd0 . ^ my home directory and then I restarted inserted boot.flp, reboot. During intallation I selected to make new filesystems on all partitions to get rid of the old files. Wolfgang