Date: 21 Nov 2002 11:40:02 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Michael Reifenberger <root@nihil.plaut.de> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Backup/restore of bootable w2k fat32 part from freebsd Message-ID: <1037841002.624.40.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20021120085533.D14569-100000@nihil> References: <20021120085533.D14569-100000@nihil>
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On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 18:42, Michael Reifenberger wrote: > are there experiences with backup/restore of an bootable w2k > partition from within FreeBSD? > I've seen `newfs_msdos -B`, but how to extract the w2k bootblock (dd?) ? > Is it sufficient to get an bootable partition? I think you'll have trouble unless you backup and restore the extra bits (system, hidden, archive) as well. I wrote a patch for msdosfs which maps these to suid/sgid/sticky (yes, I know, gross, but it was useful at the time). You can have it if you want. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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