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- From: terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
- Subject: Re: Removing 386BSD from the hard disk
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.191414.24537@gateway.novell.com>
- Keywords: 386BSD
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- References: <1992Jul21.152225.2082@lgc.com> <wutcd.712344627@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:14:14 GMT
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- In article <wutcd.712344627@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> wutcd@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes:
- >Kwan-Seng Law advised to low-level format the disk. If you don't want to
- >do this (on an IDE, about 10 % of IDE drives are problematically with this),
- >write a simple DOS program which nullifies all sectors of the first tracks
- >(via BIOS hard disk interrupt); i'm sure this will help, at least when done
- >on the whole disk.
- >
- > good luck,
- > J"org
-
- From th release notes:
-
- 1) boot tinybsd floppy
- 2) cat /386bsd >/dev/wd0d
-
- Or, if you don't want to lose a large chunk off the front of the disk:
-
- 1) boot DOS 5.0 or above
- 2) fdisk /mbr
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
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