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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: booting FreeBSD for the first time...
Date: 2 Jun 1996 16:32:17 GMT
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justin@vide.coventry.ac.uk (Justin Murdock) wrote:

> JW> This is almost irreparable,
> 
> Hold the panic! I'm sure there was an implicit "short of getting it
> right and reinstalling"

Yep.  ``Short of reinstalling, or short of manually tweaking the fdisk
table.''

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)