Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 01:45:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Mauro Castaldi <mauro.castaldi@intercom.it> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Deinstall FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960331014332.1054H-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <315E777B.729D@intercom.it>
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On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, Mauro Castaldi wrote: > Hi ! > > I have a quite serious problem. I used FIPS to get around 100 MB of free > space allocated to a FreeBSD partition on my second hard disk (IDE 420 > MB). This process made a backup of the boot sector of my harddisk and so > on. Now I messed up everything and the boot sector backup (about 1k) is > alone without any chance to boot up because I screwed the COMMAND.COM and > so on. Moreover, I really messed up my hard disk partition table and I > lost the 100 MB I have allocated to FreeBSD. So this is the situation : > - I've got the two ROOTBOOT.000 and ROOTBOOT.001 > - I've got 100 MB missing free space on drive D: (0x81) > - Everything runs fine as before the accident > > HELP ME ! I don't know what to do... :((( I'm not quite sure where you want us to go here... My suggestions: 1) Do NOT, DO NOT install from the FIPSd partition!! The MSDOS mount code will KILL that partition (which is probably what happened). Try using another method or disk. If you have a CDROM drive, try buying the CDROM. 2) I think your boot sector is screwed. Try using FDISK to clear the "FreeBSD" partition out, then install again using another method. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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