From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 01:21:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA23146 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 01:21:51 -0700 (PDT) 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 BAA23103 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 01:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA27299; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:20:53 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA12115; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:20:53 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA04321; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:15:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604110815.KAA04321@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: hard reading error To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Richard Chang) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:15:06 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Richard Chang" at Apr 10, 96 01:47:41 pm 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-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Richard Chang wrote: > I know, what I meant is first copy all the stuff to another drive (*) > then use the boot/root FreeBSD floppies and delete and create the > partitions on the original drive and then just not have any distributions > on hand. Then just reboot, copy all the stuff from the backup drive over > and then sup to the latest -current and make world and rebuild the > kernel, will this work? Basically yes, if you *hardware reformat* your drive at the point i've marked with an (*) above. This requires a separate utility under DOS, it's NOT handled by NDD, any other Norton tool (to the best of my knowledge), or `format'. You need a disk vendor tool, something like `ideform' or so. -- 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. ;-)