From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 16 00:11:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA11589 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 00:11:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from home.corecom.net (root@[199.237.128.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA11582 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 00:11:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from default (kenai13.corecom.net [199.237.130.233]) by home.corecom.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA18556 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 23:39:32 -0800 Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970815231033.006b98fc@pop.corecom.net> X-Sender: mikepp@pop.corecom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.2 (32) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 23:10:33 -0800 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Michael A. Endsley" Subject: Lost slices (Win95) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a 1.6 gig WD harddisk that has (had) Win3.1 and BSD 2.2.1-R. They were both about 800 megs. Without thinking, I upgraded the Win 3.1 to Win95. I also use BootManager from OS/2. When I re-booted for FBSD, it booted ok, then dropped me to a shell after doing the probes. It said to run FSCK manually. I found that I had lost all my different slices (usr/var/swap). I looked at the Fixit disk, but not knowing that much about commands, didn't know what to do. I did try the mount command, but nothing happened. Since then, I have read about installing 95 BEFORE installing FBSD. Can I get FBSD running again, or have I lost everything?? The worst is that I lose all my "helps" from this list. I have the 2.2.1-R CD and have most of it on my C drive (Win95), so I could re-install it ok, but hate losing all those files. Thanks, Mike me@corecom.net