From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 23:49:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3AD037B503 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 23:49:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from xor.obsecurity.org ([63.207.60.15]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G8H00MICC7HR5@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 23:45:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by xor.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2822966B62; Thu, 08 Feb 2001 23:48:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 23:48:00 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: basics In-reply-to: <3A8391D5.5060004@uaa.alaska.edu>; from asjwm2@uaa.alaska.edu on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:44:37PM -0800 To: JOHN MUELLER Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <20010208234800.A55827@mollari.cthul.hu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z" Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i References: <3A8391D5.5060004@uaa.alaska.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:44:37PM -0800, JOHN MUELLER wrote: > Dear freebsd, >=20 > I couldn't partition my drives so I got "Partition Magic" ( a=20 > software ) which is OK.My version of free bsd has purple lettering on 4= =20 > cdroms and says June 1999. Partition Magic does not list freebsd on the= =20 > types of operating systems it knows about. What kind of partition=20 > should I make for free bsd ? What kind of FAT ? Does it need a "swap"= =20 > extension like Linux ? I have a cautious streak that gets worse every=20 > time I install another operating system ( I have 5 now ). Thank you,=20 You don't need to create the partition, you use Partition Magiv to make space for a FreeBSD partition by resizing any existing FAT partitions to make room. So you may not need to do this if you already have space. The FreeBSD installer does the job of creating the FreeBSD partition. > but one last question... I got this HP Colorado tape drive for back up. = =20 > Do you have any idea if: it looks for data already backed up and skips=20 > it, just adding on new data ? I'm not really sure what the question is, but this is a function of the backup software you use, not the tape drive hardware. A tape is just a mass storage device which you have to access sequentially. But in answer to (my interpretation of) the question, most backup software will let you perform incremental backups, only backing up the files which have changed since the last backup. Kris --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6g6CvWry0BWjoQKURAkcJAKDKu7NW7COLfWgKT9CmGy/CecfwrgCcCZhs GH6obbluaAAn4n+Q/EymmK0= =Dj4V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Nq2Wo0NMKNjxTN9z-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message