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From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Mauro Castaldi <mauro.castaldi@intercom.it>
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Subject: Re: Deinstall FreeBSD
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On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, Mauro Castaldi wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> I have a quite serious problem. I used FIPS to get around 100 MB of free 
> space allocated to a FreeBSD partition on my second hard disk (IDE 420 
> MB). This process made a backup of the boot sector of my harddisk and so 
> on. Now I messed up everything and the boot sector backup (about 1k) is 
> alone without any chance to boot up because I screwed the COMMAND.COM and 
> so on. Moreover, I really messed up my hard disk partition table and I 
> lost the 100 MB I have allocated to FreeBSD. So this is the situation :
> - I've got the two ROOTBOOT.000 and ROOTBOOT.001
> - I've got 100 MB missing free space on drive D: (0x81)
> - Everything runs fine as before the accident
> 
> HELP ME ! I don't know what to do... :(((


I'm not quite sure where you want us to go here...

My suggestions:

1)  Do NOT, DO NOT install from the FIPSd partition!!  The MSDOS mount 
code will KILL that partition (which is probably what happened).  Try 
using another method or disk.  If you have a CDROM drive, try buying the 
CDROM.

2)  I think your boot sector is screwed.  Try using FDISK to clear the 
"FreeBSD" partition out, then install again using another method.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major