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Date:      Mon, 7 Nov 2005 04:49:33 +0100 (CET)
From:      "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        "Daniel C. Mahoney" <dan@wolf.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.9-STABLE - need to mount USB hard drive, create partition, newfs, etc
Message-ID:  <20051107044607.Y2634@www.pukruppa.net>
In-Reply-To: <20051107033108.20097.qmail@houston.wolf.com>
References:  <20051107033108.20097.qmail@houston.wolf.com>

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On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Daniel C. Mahoney wrote:

> I've got a 4.9-STABLE system. I have a 250GB USB hard drive, and I'd like to 
> create a UFS file system on it then mount it. It had an ext2 file system on 
> it, but deleted it before taking it off the Linux box. 
> I've tried working with disklabel and fdisk, but I don't seem to be 
> understanding the man pages since I'm not getting anywhere. The system *is* 
> seeing the drive as /dev/da0. 
> Can anyone offer me directions on what I've got to do? 
Did you try
   # /stand/sysinstall

This will give you the FreeBSD installation menu and you should 
be able to setup partitions and formatting.

Good Luck,

Uli.

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