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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: mbr
To: andrew@shoal.net.au (Andrew Perry)
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 01:29:10 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <32FD89E7.489C@shoal.net.au> from "Andrew Perry" at Feb 9, 97 06:25:11 pm
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It seems that Andrew Perry said:
> 
> >From dos i think.
> 
> btw what does the :w do? (sorry, i know it's not a dos mailing 
> list, just had to ask :) )
> 
> Don Yuniskis wrote:
> > 
> > > How do I restore my original MBR once I have removed the FreeBSD software?
> > > I tried to reformat buy no go.
> > 
> > fdisk /mbr:w

The ``:w'' is obviously me being brain-dead and "writing" the vi buffer
out while still in input mode  :-(