Re: formatting hardrive

2003-10-05 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Saturday 04 October 2003 23:56, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Well, although /stand/sysinstall would do it OK, it might be just > as easy to use fdisk and disklabel directly. I don't know anything > about 'bsdlabel'. I thank you very much for this long answer which I'll keep as a reference for a

Re: formatting hardrive

2003-10-05 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Saturday 04 October 2003 21:53, Manuel Rabade (MiG) wrote: > Sysintsall should work fine .. cand you send the output of 'fdisk /dev/ad2' > and 'bsdlabel /dev/ad2'. I finally succeeded... Rebooting, using the install CD... all kind of different things... and it finally worked. Antoine ___

Re: formatting hardrive

2003-10-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > > > Hi ! > > > > Ok, I'm at a point where I'm ready to cry :( > > Is there ANY easy way to partition/slice a hardrive for FreeBSD ? > > I spent all morning playing with bsdlabel, sysinstall... I just want to > > partition a second hardrive so I could dump/restore the content of my fir

Re: formatting hardrive

2003-10-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi ! > > Ok, I'm at a point where I'm ready to cry :( > Is there ANY easy way to partition/slice a hardrive for FreeBSD ? > I spent all morning playing with bsdlabel, sysinstall... I just want to > partition a second hardrive so I could dump/restore the content of my first > drive. > So

Re: formatting hardrive

2003-10-04 Thread Manuel Rabade (MiG)
Sysintsall should work fine .. cand you send the output of 'fdisk /dev/ad2' and 'bsdlabel /dev/ad2'. On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:27:56PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi ! > > Ok, I'm at a point where I'm ready to cry :( > Is there ANY easy way to partition/slice a hardrive for FreeBSD ? >

formatting hardrive

2003-10-04 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi ! Ok, I'm at a point where I'm ready to cry :( Is there ANY easy way to partition/slice a hardrive for FreeBSD ? I spent all morning playing with bsdlabel, sysinstall... I just want to partition a second hardrive so I could dump/restore the content of my first drive. So, I tried sysinstal