From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 25 12:18:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07809 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:18:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07689 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:17:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA00691; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:17:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:17:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: rdmurphy@vt.edu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 install problem In-Reply-To: <199806251603.MAA06789@neale.econ.vt.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Russell D. Murphy wrote: > offset size end name PType Desc Subtype > 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 > 63 8007489 8007551 wd0s1 2 fat 12 > > I tried to keep the 63 sector(?) "unused" piece in place, deleted the > second piece, and then recreated a 1000m dos (fat) partition, and > assigned the rest to freebsd. > > Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g., C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM) > C> > ---------- > > Then, no matter what I type, the last two lines are repeated. Is > there any way to resurrect this Windows installation? Nope, you blew your sector calculations and corrupted part of the FS. Use FIPS next time. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message