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- From: cobra@coyote.datalog.com (Ken Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Re-partitioning GVP 500HD with 2.04 and FAAASTprep?
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- Organization: Datalog Consulting, Tucson, AZ
- References: <1993Jan3.161716.5511@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 02:13:54 GMT
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- tim@lenti.med.umn.edu (Tim Leonard) writes:
-
- > I would like to repartition my GVP 500-8+ drive. I want
- > to have a separate partition for workbench files but
- > my problem is this. I am using workbench 2.04 and
- > my GVP FAAAST Prep disk has old 1.3 files on its'
- > floppy. If I re-prep and partition the drive, how
- > do I re-install the workbench partition with my
- > 2.04 files? Do I make a 2.04 boot floppy and copy
- > the FAAAST Prep install program to it?
- >
- > I saved the present contents of the hard disk with ABackup.
- >
- > The GVP book isn't very complete. It doesn't even explain
- > the bad block remap button or the low level format button.
-
- * You should be able to boot up in 1.x mode (and using the 2.x ROM, it'll
- be running in 2.x mode...), and then fire up the FaaastPrep program to
- clean off the HD.
-
- You've already saved the drive contents...this is good; as you'll need to
- reformat the drive in order to create the partition.
-
- The manual I have on the HD+ drive gives enough detail to partition the
- drives...I created a ten meg DH0: and have two 53 Meg partitions for
- Work: junk and Data: junk. If you give it a size that you want, it'll
- let you know how much room you have and whether you have the room to
- format a partition of the sizes you request...it's pretty
- self-explanitory.
-
- Feel free to send E-Mail if you have further questions...
-
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