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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!barilvm!news.biu.ac.il!vms.huji.ac.il!shum.cc.huji.ac.il!nntpserver.huji.ac.il!amoss Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do I restore my original DOS MBR??? Message-ID: <AMOSS.95May28081248@picton.cs.huji.ac.il> From: amoss@picton.cs.huji.ac.il (Amos Shapira) Date: 28 May 1995 05:12:48 GMT References: <bgreen.35.2FBAA251@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu><3pta7e$roa@tipellium.apana.org.au> Distribution: world Organization: Inst. of Comp. Sci., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel NNTP-Posting-Host: picton.cs.huji.ac.il In-reply-to: hart@apanix.apana.org.au's message of 23 May 1995 18:40:46 GMT Lines: 21 hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) writes: > Next question, I have a 420MB IDE drive and would like to partition 100MB to > FreeBSD. Is there a way to do this and preserve my current drive. I have > the space free but I dread FDisking the drive and repartitioning then > restoring DOS in one of the partitions and BSD in the other. Or does BSD > take care of this on it's own? Any change to a partition will destroy the data on that partition. Are you sure about that? I heard FIPS can do this without having to backup/restore the partition. (never used it, though) Cheers, --Amos -- --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." ISRAEL amoss@cs.huji.ac.il | -- Anonymous