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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1326 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:35:21 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: how do I undo 386BSD boot blocks? Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1993 12:13:40 GMT Message-ID: <C2DzAv.Kzz@sugar.neosoft.com> References: <1993Feb12.010335.26398@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Feb12.024645.20918@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1lf98o$fpt@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Lines: 25 In article <1lf98o$fpt@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes: > In article <1993Feb12.024645.20918@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > > 2) boot dist.fs or fixit.fs and type dd if=/386bsd of=/dev/wd0a > What does this do? Not familiar with it and I sort of think I shouldn't > experiment with it on my system.... :) That should be intuitively obvious to the most casual observer. :-> It writes the 386BSD kernel (which is effectively random data) over the beginning of the disk, trashing any sort of disk table so you can rebuild it. No offense intended, but if you can't figure that out from context you should probably not be messing with 386BSD in the first place. 386BSD is for hackers to do research, not for production use. Speaking of research, anyone bought the Sprite CD-ROM and checked out the Log file system? I'd like to try running a Log file system partition and a Viva file system partition and comparing the performance, when Viva comes out later this year. -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.