From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 23 17:45:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ruh-len1.swablack.af.mil (ruh-len1.swablack.af.mil [153.24.110.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B691714C33 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark.cole@eskan.af.mil) Received: from ruh-len1.swablack.af.mil (root@localhost) by ruh-len1.swablack.af.mil with ESMTP id EAA16229 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 04:36:12 GMT Received: from ksugzx02.eskan.af.mil (ksugzx02.eskan.af.mil [153.24.34.41]) by ruh-len1.swablack.af.mil with ESMTP id EAA16225 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 04:36:12 GMT Received: by ksugzx02.eskan.af.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2607.0) id ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 01:46:46 -0000 Message-ID: <8091C29FE7ABD31180AA0090275CD297295139@ksugzx02.eskan.af.mil> From: Cole Mark A SSgt JTF-SWA/J6 To: "'bsd'" Subject: backup restore dilemma Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 01:46:44 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2607.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am resending this because of no reply, I really need this help more than any. Any info or a push towards where to find it would be great. And please don't tell me the handbook, I have already read through it twice with no obvious answers in it. Thanks in advance. > I inherited 2 PC's running freebsd that act as our webservers. I am not > real familiar with unix and its relatives so here are my questions: > > 1) How can you tell if SCSI support is already added into the kernel > > 2) Is it possible to connect a IDE Tape unit to an existing machine and > use it with our reconfiguring the kernel. > > 3) If I have a complete backup of a system, can restore the system from a > boot floppy, or would I have to reinstall freebsd first? (in case of a > total failure.) > > > Thanks for any and all help!!!! > > > -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message