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From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: hard reading error
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On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> 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.

	Hmmm, would't the program in the FreeBSD installation program 
before it adds the distribution after fdisk do the same thing?

Richard