Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 01:51:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hard reading error Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960411015029.24231O-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199604110815.KAA04321@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > 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. Hmmm, would't the program in the FreeBSD installation program before it adds the distribution after fdisk do the same thing? Richard
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