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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD killed my drive
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Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 15:06:02 GMT

: In article <jm040795-0905961004030001@mencju.apple.com>,
: 	jm040795@fhda.edu (Raven) writes:
: >I just tried to install FreeBSD on my second HardDrive (2gig) and FreeBSD
: >killed my first hard drive.  Now the geometry is all screwed up.
: >
: >I'm really pissed off.  NeXTStep, Solaris, and my DOS partition are toasty
: >critters with the onslaught of the geometry ignorant FreeBSD.

If you read the install screens next time, you'll know not to tell
it to put the bootstrap on your 2nd drive.  Personally, whenever I
install unix on a machine with a "sacred" 2nd drive, I generally
physically unplug the sacred drive until I'm done.

Chris
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