Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:25:13 +1000 (EST) From: HMG coA reductase <s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> To: Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing a fips partition with fdisk Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960807122230.31760B-100000@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU> In-Reply-To: <32075E9E.508A@nation-net.com>
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NO! don't remove the existing DOS partition! i believe, if you have the complete set of FIPS utilities, you can actually restore your original big partition that was split, if you had made a backup of the partition table and boot record on a floppy. can't remember the name of that program, but it's definitely in the CD-ROM inside the directory that contains the full FIPS sources and executables. perhaps someone out there could look in the installation CD and supply the full pathname... ivan On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Paul Walsh wrote: > Would this be safe to do? > > My disk has a 2nd dos and 1 freeBSD partition, both created with fips. Now I > want to lose the extra fips dos partition and hopefully reclaim it back in > the original dos partition! > > Fips won't let me do this , so is it OK to use fdisk? > > (I know how easy it is to lose file systems playing with fips.) > > > AND, what would be the best way to set up a mirror drive for use in > emergencies? Since it would have to be bootable and essentially an exact copy > is this possible with the mirror package ( whose name I forget ) Could I > dump straight onto a second drive, once I have done a minimum install? i dunno about mirrors.
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