Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:56:28 -0800 From: Micheas Herman <micheas@freep.org> To: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly Message-ID: <1071813387.931.61.camel@tux> In-Reply-To: <20031219004318.W18755@rocket.alienwebshop.com> References: <20031219004318.W18755@rocket.alienwebshop.com>
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On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 21:48, Peter Leftwich wrote: > I thought I would GIVE BACK to the BSD community and share my breakthrough: > > Here is how to mount your freebsd partition from Linux (in my case, it was > a CD-R of the Debian-based bootable known as Knoppix available from > www.knoppix.net). As long as your Linux environment can "see" the > partition, such as /mnt/hda2 (for example), you first > > $ umount /mnt/hda2 > $ mkdir /mnt/freebsdpartition > $ mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hda2 /mnt/freebsdpartition > > The only thing I could not figure out was how to "su" my currently-running > X session. That would allow me to use KDE and Konqueror to browse > graphically to the directory /mnt/freebsdpartition ... anyone know how? In knoppix you have to set root's password before you can su. [ctl][alt][F2] will get you to a root prompt. enter passwd, type in root's password and voila, you are good to go. Micheas > > Happy holidays everyone, and happy reading-of-the-manpages!! :0) > > -- > Peter Leftwich > President & Founder, Video2Video Services > Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA > http://Www.Video2Video.Com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Micheas Herman email: micheas@freep.org Free Print Shop web: http://www.FreePrintShop.org phone: (415)648-3222 fax: (415)648-3222
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