From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 19:25:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA23531 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 19:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (s_koyin@eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU [128.250.6.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA23513 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 19:25:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from s_koyin@localhost) by eduserv.its.unimelb.EDU.AU (8.7.4/8.7.3) id MAA14604; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:25:15 +1000 (EST) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 12:25:13 +1000 (EST) From: HMG coA reductase To: Paul Walsh cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing a fips partition with fdisk In-Reply-To: <32075E9E.508A@nation-net.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk NO! don't remove the existing DOS partition! i believe, if you have the complete set of FIPS utilities, you can actually restore your original big partition that was split, if you had made a backup of the partition table and boot record on a floppy. can't remember the name of that program, but it's definitely in the CD-ROM inside the directory that contains the full FIPS sources and executables. perhaps someone out there could look in the installation CD and supply the full pathname... ivan On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Paul Walsh wrote: > Would this be safe to do? > > My disk has a 2nd dos and 1 freeBSD partition, both created with fips. Now I > want to lose the extra fips dos partition and hopefully reclaim it back in > the original dos partition! > > Fips won't let me do this , so is it OK to use fdisk? > > (I know how easy it is to lose file systems playing with fips.) > > > AND, what would be the best way to set up a mirror drive for use in > emergencies? Since it would have to be bootable and essentially an exact copy > is this possible with the mirror package ( whose name I forget ) Could I > dump straight onto a second drive, once I have done a minimum install? i dunno about mirrors.