Date: 22 Jun 2005 10:25:10 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Wesley Groleau" <Wesley.Groleau@parkview.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD to examine/work on a Solaris disk Message-ID: <44hdfqjwop.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <s2b7fed3.042@gw.parkview.com> References: <s2b7fed3.042@gw.parkview.com>
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"Wesley Groleau" <Wesley.Groleau@parkview.com> writes: > I have an i386 FreeBSD 5.4 I've stuck a disk from a Sun Ultra 10 on the > ATA0 slave. > > If possible, I'd like to mount it to see what's what. > > (and tweak some /etc files so I can get into the Sun). > > Is there an fstype to mount the disk? Or even a way to see the > partition table? > > All the ones I tried wouldn't work. FreeBSD does recognize there is a > disk there. > > Of course, I can't be sure it's Solaris---previous owner might have > been into Linux/BSD/whatever. To start with, there's probably a problem with endianness (on the metadata structures). Even if the Sun ran FreeBSD, that would still apply. I'd estimate that this is about the level of a semester project for an undergraduate programmer...
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