From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 28 05:48:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1EF037B401 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 05:48:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta4.adelphia.net (mta4.adelphia.net [64.8.50.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE0E84400B for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 05:48:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.179.151]) by mta4.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030628124806.JQMO1347.mta4.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 08:48:06 -0400 Message-ID: <3EFD8E86.90602@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 08:48:06 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DanB References: <3EFD2B79.8BBEA8CA@chatusa.com> In-Reply-To: <3EFD2B79.8BBEA8CA@chatusa.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd Subject: Re: Backup Tar X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 12:48:08 -0000 DanB wrote: > If I tar my files on freebsd box then FTP them to a window 98 box can > I use that file to reinstall on a new Freebsd box? You're a little vague ... But as long as you do the FTP transfer in binary mode you'll be able to unpack the tar archive again. If you properly tarred up everything you need, you should be able to restore the system. "reinstalling" is a slightly different matter, as you'll have to first create the proper partitions, newfs the filesystems and install boot blocks. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com