Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 12:09:40 -0600 From: dunhamal@cuug.ab.ca (Alan Dunham 284-9866) To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: dos + FreeBSD 2.1 on IDE, dos needs format Message-ID: <199609161809.MAA13631@sun.cuug.ab.ca>
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Hi: I have just installed FreeBSD 2.1 on a new IDE disk (Fireball 1.2). I set up a 400Mb partition for DOS before I installed FreeBSD on the rest of the drive. But I didn't format C: first (not thinking ahead, I guess). Now that FreeBSD is up, I am afraid to format C: because I don't trust DOS software. I have an archive of 386bsd & FreeBSD newsgroups since Aug 92. I can almost always find a solution to any problem I have by looking there. But it seems that no one else has made this mistake. -Is there a way of doing a DOS format from BSD on /dev/rwd0s1? -If I format C:, will it leave my BSD partition (slice) intact? -If I change the CMOS to tell it that C: has only 813 cylinders instead of the actual 2484, then will format C: leave BSD alone? -Will a dos format destroy the BSD boot manager & boot blocks & disklabel? thanks, Al Alan Dunham /\ The finest views are only seen dunhamal@cuug.ab.ca /\ \ from the hardest routes. Calgary, Alberta / \ \ A. F. Mummery
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