🚀 go-pugleaf

We made the extremely unfortunate mistake of running INSTALL on a
NetWare 2.2 server to try to change the startup files.  This is ok under
NetWare 3.x, but it completely wiped out volume SYS on the 2.2 server!

The server's drive contained a 56 megabyte NetWare (non-ded.) partition
and a 20 megabyte DOS partition.  We manually fixed the partition table and
thus completely regained the DOS partition; however, it looks like the
directory and FAT of the NetWare partition have been replaced with a directory
and FAT for a volume containing LOGIN, SYS (and the bindery in it), MAIL, and
nothing else.  Indeed, the partition table after INSTALL contained only
one entry:  a NetWare partition consisting of the whole drive.  The
partition table as we left it contains two entries:  a NetWare partition
and the now-working DOS partition.  The NetWare partition now includes all
sectors after the master boot record up to the DOS partition.

INSTALL was stopped before it performed the drive test--or at least before
it got very far with it.  Sectors 9-15 or so contain nothing but lower-case
l's, which is why I wonder if a test pattern was, in fact, written.  It looks
like the files we need from the NetWare partition still physically
exist but that there is no directory to point to them--UNLESS the second
copy is still good???

I would appreciate any assistance I can get with this.  We have software
which will allow us to edit physical sectors, partition tables, etc.,
and we have the expertise to do it.  What we DON'T have is the knowledge of
what to edit.  :)  I have detailed explanations of the formats of DOS
filesystem elements (directories, FAT, etc.), but I have no such
information for a NetWare 2.2 filesystem.  We just purchased and tried
Ontrack's NetUtils 2 (the NETSCAN program, specifically), but this did not
seem to help; it wants to "restore" the INSTALLed partition, which we want
it to forget!

Thanks in advance.  Apologies if I'm posting this somewhere where it
doesn't belong.  c.l.a.x86 folks:  I include you because you may know more
than most about such low-level OS access.  I will follow all groups I
reference here for at least three weeks, but email would be appreciated
in case my ISP has more Usenet trouble.

-- 
Doug Lee                        | "It's not easy to be crafty and winsome at
Metro Vision, Inc.              | the same time, and few accomplish it after
dlee@cencom.net or dlee@uis.edu | the age of six."  {D. Sutten}