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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!mips!newsun!gateway.novell.com!terry From: terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) Subject: Re: Removing 386BSD from the hard disk Message-ID: <1992Jul28.191414.24537@gateway.novell.com> Keywords: 386BSD Sender: news@gateway.novell.com (NetNews) Nntp-Posting-Host: thisbe.eng.sandy.novell.com Organization: Novell NPD -- Sandy, UT References: <1992Jul21.152225.2082@lgc.com> <wutcd.712344627@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 19:14:14 GMT Lines: 27 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.