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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!mcshub!flex.eng.mcmaster.ca!todd From: todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca (Todd Pfaff) Subject: DOS installation wiped out 386BSD disk label information Message-ID: <1993Mar24.234846.7304@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Keywords: HELP Sender: usenet@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: flex1.eng.mcmaster.ca Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1993 23:48:46 GMT Lines: 26 Help!!! I had partitioned a 450MB IDE drive with 100MB for DOS and the rest for 386BSD. 386BSD was installed and running happily and then I went and installed DOS 5.0. When I rebooted, PBOOT didn't find the 386BSD bootable partition. I rebooted fixit.fs from floppy and ran disklabel which showed one unused partition covering the entire disk. Is there any way I can recover from this? I don't have backups because I had just finished the installation (so I could reinstall from scratch although I like to avoid this if possible). If I do reinstall, I'd like to repartition the disk so I have several 386BSD partitions (maybe /, /usr, /usr/src) and a larger swap partition. Can anybody give me any recommendations on this? I think I know how to go about it, using disklabel -e to edit the label, but I'd like to hear from experience on a good partitioning scheme. What about swap? I have 16MB of RAM, so I should have at least this much swap, no? I believe the default swap partition is about 5MB, correct? -- Todd Pfaff \ Internet: todd@flex.eng.mcmaster.ca Dept. of Mechanical Engineering \ Voice: (416) 525-9140 x2902 McMaster University \ FAX: (416) 572-7944 Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA L8S 4L7 \