From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 22 7:41:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AEAE637B422 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 07:41:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: (qmail 5678 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2001 16:41:13 +0200 Received: from bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se (HELO there) (62.5.36.29) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 22 Aug 2001 16:41:13 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: "default" , Subject: Re: PowerQuest Partition Magic proggy... Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:41:26 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20010822144114.AEAE637B422@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 22 August 2001 8:01 am, default wrote: > Hi, > > I was just wanted some input from users out there familiar with running > Partition Magic (or particularly Disk Copy) on a FreeBSD machine... > > I am considering running backups using Disk Copy, and just wanted to know > how one would get this working on a FreeBSD machine... > > Will it work if one just compiles the ability to read DOS partitions into > the kernel? ... Or does one even need that? > > Thanks, > > Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Not sure exactly what you want to do here, but I don' t think Partition Magic understands BSD Partitions. You can, as you have observed, compile your kernel with support for msdos file systems and then back them up from within FreeBSD. Are we talking about a multiboot machine here? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message