Re: Improved aboot (with updated documentation) from boot floppies

[Cornelius Creedon <neil box1 staller sunysb edu>]

(totally off topic)

but, speaking of dos partition tables:
can anyone point me to information or utilities to attempt to recover info
from a dos disk with a damaged partition table?
better yet:
methods to utilize an image of the _disk_ in a file?
(not an image of the partition; if i had that i wouldnt be asking...)

[i happen to have an "identically configured" disk and its image as well,
and using a binary editor can 'see' the 'problem', but even if i were to
overwrite the 'broken' image with the info from the intact one i would
still have an image of a disk... id like to avoid having to write out the 
image to a device before trying to read it...]

please feel free to remove the list from the reply...

any pointers much appreciated.
-cc

On 4 Mar 2000, David Huggins-Daines wrote:
>
> The only reason that DOS partitions are better is because of the
> poor state of the existing tools for dealing with other partitioning
> schemes.  On Alpha, we got used to using them since we had MILO and
> Windows NT.  Now we don't have MILO or Windows NT anymore, and we'll
> have to learn to be like the other non-Intel platforms.  In the end I
> think this is a win.