Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 11:03:22 -0400 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: joe <joe@sotham.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Migrating from Mandrake to FreeBSD 4.4 Message-ID: <20020407110322.561bccd1.scottro@nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20020407144417.5B7FC37B417@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20020407144417.5B7FC37B417@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sat, 6 Apr 2002 05:44:15 -0800 joe <joe@sotham.com> wrote: > I've migrated my server from mandrake 8.1 to FreeBSD. (Migrating may a > slightly strong description..._starting over with_ is more apt > description) > > Two physical disks exist ad0, ad1. I installed the system, on ad0, > and was up and running with the system within two hours. For the last > two days I have been pondering (...reading documentation, man pages) > trying to figure out how to mount the second set of partitions as file > systems without wacking the data on these drives. I am a complete > loss as to how to proceed. It's one of those things that seem more difficult than it really is. (Of course, most things are simple once you figure out how to do them.) Firstly, I'm assuming the MD stuff is on ext2 or 3. Last time I tried, I wasn't able to mount anything that was on reiser. Then you'll have to recompile your kernel and add support for Linux. I'm going to assume that you're still using the GENERIC kernel as you've only just begun. cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf vi GENERIC (or whatever text editor you want) add this--you can add it at the bottom. options EXT2FS (a quick note--at some point or another take a look at LINT in the same directory--it has all the options you could possibly imagine.) Save the modified file config GENERIC you'll see a message like don't forget to do make depend Kernel build directory is ../../compile/GENERIC cd ../../compile/GENERIC make depend && make && make install Upon reboot you'll have Linux support. Now as it seems that the Linux stuff is in an extended partition, you'll probably have to mount parts of it like mount_ext2fs ad1s5 Just do ls /dev/ad1* and see what the possibilities are. If mounting ad1s1 gives you an error, try with 2, etc. HTH Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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