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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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In the last episode (Jun 21), Rishi Chopra said:
> What is the effect on the /usr partition when reinstalling over an
> installation?
> 
> I suffered a kernel panic that wiped my MBR; I'd like to simply
> reinstall with the same partition/slice values - will my /usr
> partition and the data therein still be accessible after
> reinstallation?

Sure, except anything you may have changed in
/usr/{bin,sbin,share,lib,libexec} will get overwritten.  Make sure you
elect not to newfs any of your filesytems :)  In fact, if you know your
exact mbr info, you should be able to boot the install floppy, go to
the partition editor, set it up, write, reboot, and you're done.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com