From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 11 15:02:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA27070 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:02:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA27061 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:02:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA14640; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:01:53 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA27754; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:01:52 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id XAA00383; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 23:26:19 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603112226.XAA00383@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Clobbered partititon table .. :-( To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 23:26:19 +0100 (MET) Cc: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603111602.DAA12008@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from "michael butler" at Mar 12, 96 03:02:37 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As michael butler wrote: > > How does one recover from the clobbered partition table that no longer > exists after you try to install another drive with the 2.1 install disk ? By writing down the figures before clobbering it. Or by remembring about the exact file system assignments that have been used by the time of installation. This once helped me to recover from a clobbered BSD disklabel. -- 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. ;-)