Re: Backup/restore of bootable w2k fat32 part from freebsd

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. mtools has a command mattrib which can

HOWTO: Upgrade w/o floppy or cd to bootstrap

Hi, I recently decided to upgrade my network firewall which is headless. Last time I had a monitor attached I had set the BIOS to boot only CD-ROM and then hard-disk. This presented me with a problem to perform a serial-console installation. (The handbook talks about modifiy the boot floppies

Alternate, floppy/cd-rom less install procedure

Hi, I recently decided to upgrade my network firewall which is headless. Last time I had a monitor attached I had set the BIOS to boot only CD-ROM and then hard-disk. This presented me with a problem to perform a serial-console installation. (The handbook talks about modifiy the boot floppies

regular file size stored in dump header?

Hi, I am trying to add some flags to restore which would print the filesizes of the files included on the tape. This is pretty easy for directory entries (an entry exists in inotab) but I can't see any easy way for regular files. Do I have to count the blocks? Any other way? Rgds/mark To Un

dump files too large, nodump related??

Hi, I have noticed some strange behaviour with 4.3-RELEASE and dump. I have been dumping my filesystems through gzip into a compressed dumpfile. Some of the resulting dumps have been MUCH larger than I would expect. As an example, I have just dumped my /home partition note that lots of dir