a little problem!!!!!!

[Alexandr]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:37:10PM +0200, MarC wrote:
> hello, my name is marc and i'm from Romania.
> I have a little problem: i just bought a laptop Compaq Presario 1200, old 
> laptop, and my operating system is FreeBSD. I wanted to format it and i 
> don't know how. In Bios this feature insn't. Please tell me a list of 
> commands in FreeBSD how do I format my hard-disk....and even other 
> sugestions.ok? 
> 
> Thx for all that and good bye....
> mar-c
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You need newfs utility.
For more info : man newfs

for example 
format floppy:
newffs /dev/fd0

format hard partition:
newffs /dev/ad0s1