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Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD to examine/work on a Solaris disk
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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...