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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1217 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:30:41 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ufo!seaview!kaleb From: kaleb@seaview (Kaleb Keithley) Subject: Re: how do I undo 386BSD boot blocks? Message-ID: <1993Feb12.184310.27616@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (For NNTP so rrn will be able to post) Nntp-Posting-Host: seaview.jpl.nasa.gov Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA) References: <1lelqg$dfc@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> <1993Feb12.010335.26398@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Feb12.024645.20918@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 18:43:10 GMT Lines: 41 In article terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > because I wrote >>There are some poor assumptions about telling people to use 'fdisk /mbr'. > >There is an alternate method in INSTALL.NOTES. Basically, you don't need >to fdisk the mbr for a valid one to be written -- you just have to invalidate >it. This can be accomplished with either of the following: > > 1) low-level format the disk. Yeah, I could throw my 486 into the Pacific too! Get a grip Mr. Wizard of Earth C. That's like saying "The operation was a success, even though the patient died." I've got 150 megabytes in my OS/2 partition. My idea of a good time isn't to spend 45 minutes low level formatting my disk, then another hour to reinstall OS/2, then another half hour to restore from backups. Oh, and by the way, I'd still need DOS to low-level format my disk! > 2) boot dist.fs or fixit.fs and type dd if=/386bsd of=/dev/wd0a And where does that leave me? Do I still need a DOS disk after doing that to fix up my now invalidated master boot record? I bet I do! >1) Frankly, you are lucky that the people doing research using 386BSD > are willing to share it with you before it's commercial quality, > assuming that that will ever be the case. What kind of @#$%^& is that. I don't run around saying "You're lucky I did this", for the things I've placed in the freely redistributable domain. I hope you're not using Xaw3d! You're name isn't Jolitz, or Torvalds, or even Stallman; just where do you get off telling me I'm lucky? Now that I have that off my chest... I apologize to the rest of the world for venting my spleen in public like this. -- Kaleb Keithley kaleb@devvax.jpl.nasa.gov