Creating a FAT32 on new drive...

[RW]

On Wednesday 17 November 2004 21:59, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> hello family,
>
> I have some drives that I've brought home for repair.
>
> I have a Promise IDE controller installed with dual ports and two
> 36" IDE ribbons attached to the Promise controller and snaking out
> an open CDROM slot, along with a powersupply leads.
>
> My FreeBSD box boots fine, the Promise card shows up and my first
> drive came up as /dev/ad5.
>
> I used "sysinstall" to delete the old partitions and now need to
> simple create one big "FAT32" partition/drive and see if things
> work when this drive is placed back into a machine at work.

I use  SystemRescueCd for this kind of thing.

http://www.sysresccd.org/

It's a Gentoo live cd with a load of useful utilitys, including qtparted.