From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 24 19:02:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2859DF38; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:02:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC988FC08; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:02:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 674691E000C8; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:02:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id qAOJ08IL095844; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:00:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id qAOJ08DC095843; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:00:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:00:08 +0100 (CET) From: Juergen Lock Message-Id: <201211241900.qAOJ08DC095843@triton8.kn-bremen.de> To: ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com Subject: Re: RME audio card user new to FreeBSD X-Newsgroups: local.list.freebsd.multimedia In-Reply-To: <1353768334.2641.21.camel@q> References: <50AFD823.2050203@freebsd.org> <1353710659.11101.58.camel@q> <201211232214.qANMEh7x030303@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <201211241339.qAODdbHs087952@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <201211241414.qAOEEixW089219@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <1353768334.2641.21.camel@q> Organization: Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:02:51 -0000 In article <1353768334.2641.21.camel@q> you write: >Thank you! You're welcome! > >On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 15:14 +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: >> Don't want to try 9.1RC3? > >I thought it would be better to start with something "stable" as a >newbie and now burning already is in progress. > Well I don't think there'll be many changes from RC3 to release, and you can use freebsd-update to get to -release after it's out anyway. >> (I think you can also back it up, but make sure you don't restore the >> slice table in the mbr too if you add the bsd slice from bsdinstall, >> only the actual bootcode.) > >I backup the first 512 bytes: >dd if=/dev/sda of=MBR_sda-$BACKUP_NAME_ADD bs=512 count=1 > >So I should restore from byte 0 to byte 439 only if a restore should be >needed? > That does sound correct. (tho I haven't verified the exact number 439.) >I assume that there's also a way to recover a broken partition table >with "BSD information" if needed and no backup should be available? > There is sysutils/scan_ffs in ports tho I didn't have to try it yet. HTH, :) Juergen PS: I have Cc'd the freebsd-questions list as this no longer really is a multimedia topic... (Yes I should have done that earlier, sorry.)