Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:15:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hard reading error Message-ID: <199604110815.KAA04321@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960410134540.24231D@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from "Richard Chang" at Apr 10, 96 01:47:41 pm
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As Richard Chang wrote: > I know, what I meant is first copy all the stuff to another drive (*) > then use the boot/root FreeBSD floppies and delete and create the > partitions on the original drive and then just not have any distributions > on hand. Then just reboot, copy all the stuff from the backup drive over > and then sup to the latest -current and make world and rebuild the > kernel, will this work? Basically yes, if you *hardware reformat* your drive at the point i've marked with an (*) above. This requires a separate utility under DOS, it's NOT handled by NDD, any other Norton tool (to the best of my knowledge), or `format'. You need a disk vendor tool, something like `ideform' or so. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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