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Date:      Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:41:26 +0200
From:      Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net>
To:        "default" <default013subscriptions@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: PowerQuest Partition Magic proggy...
Message-ID:  <20010822144114.AEAE637B422@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <OE52UgbU76j1KQj3KnO000024b2@hotmail.com>
References:  <OE52UgbU76j1KQj3KnO000024b2@hotmail.com>

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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
>
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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?

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