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- From: kwan@netcom.com (Kwan-Seng Low)
- Subject: Re: Removing 386BSD from the hard disk
- Message-ID: <0+nmhvq.kwan@netcom.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 02:11:32 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Jul21.152225.2082@lgc.com> <wutcd.712344627@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> <1992Jul28.191414.24537@gateway.novell.com>
- Keywords: 386BSD
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- In article <1992Jul28.191414.24537@gateway.novell.com> terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
- >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
- >---
- >Disclaimer: Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of
- >my present or previous employers.
-
- The reason I made the suggestion was fdisk /mbr failed to wiped out
- the 386bsd from my hard disK. I boot with the dist.fs after I ran fdisk/mbr.
- Install compaints... : It appears 386bsd has been installed on your hard disk,
- do you want to overwrite it? (y/n)
- if I hit yes, it'll prompt me the same question over and over again, til I
- hit no. After I low level format the disk, this prob. gone away.
- BTW, I'm using AHA1542b with CDC94171 300Meg SCSI 5 1/4".
- any clue?
-
- Kwan-Seng Low
-