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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!torn!onlink3.onlink.net!pheebs.citytel.net!kwoody From: "Keith W." <kwoody@citytel.netNO-SPAM> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Killing a FBSD partition properly...? Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:18:39 -0700 Organization: Ontario Northland--ONLink Lines: 27 Approved: Hopefully all the time! Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.970515000427.13519A-100000-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: pheebs.citytel.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: kwoody@pheebs.citytel.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40910 Heres one for you folks out there... I have a dx2/66 w/ a 420 western digital as drive c:. It has already a 220 meg FBSD partition, the rest is a Dos partition. This drive was originally setup in a 386dx/33 before. I have a Quantum 525 meg drive as D: that I will turn into a dedicated FBSD drive. I must say boot mgr is pretty smart as when I installed both drives together it recognized a second drive on the first boot up. Is there a proper way to kill the current BSD partition on drive c? Can I just run Partion Magic and turn the drive back into a 420 meg dos drive, killing the fbsd partition? Will boot mgr be a problem when I go and install bsd onto drive d:? I assume that once I toast the bsd partition on drive c that bootmgr will still be there asking which drive/os I want to boot into even though BSD will no longer be on drive c:? thanks for any advice. Keith. if it matters at all I'm running 2.1.7.