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From: Mark R Sibenac <sibster+@CMU.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: how to reinstall boot program?
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 22:18:57 -0500
Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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hello,

i was messing around with the norton utilites in dos the other day with
speed-disk -- big mistake. now, i can't boot my net-bsd partition. i
still have floppies for net-bsd, but i can't mount my harddrive so i can
fix the file-system or back it up or whatever.

how do i access the harddrive after booting from the installation floppies?

if i reinstall, will that wipe all of my not-backed up stuff on my bsd
partition?

basically, how can i get to my bsd partition on my harddrive? i can't
boot off of the harddrive, but i can from floppies.

any help would be appeciated......thanks

mark