restoring DOS partition from a tar file

Kent Hauser kent.hauser at verizon.net
Mon Oct 20 03:23:43 PDT 2003


Is it possible to backup a DOS partition (bootable) & restore it from a tar 
file? I recently had a disk failure & used dump/restore on FreeBSD partitions 
& made a tar dump of the DOS one. After "newfs_msdos" & "tar x", the 
partition is not bootable. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks, Kent



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