thanks, bill. I tried to install windows for workgroups from diskette on my thinkpad, on the existing dos partition.
regardless of what it put on /dev/hda2, it trashed my partition tables. If I reenter the same valued for the partititons, will my e2fs partition survive? or do I have to reinstall. For that matter, the same question for dos: when my zip died, it trashed the partition table of the disk in the drive, as well as the next I tried to insert (which is why i was trying to install from a stray stack of disks rather than my backup). Assuming the files itself weren't trashed, can I recover this (Okay, I shouldn't have bought an iomega product, but at the time, it let me continue to use the old powerbook for the kids rather than my wife running off & spending $3k on a new machine :) rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer.
