From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 21:56:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBDC416A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:56:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from freep.dyns.net (adsl-64-170-112-11.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.170.112.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4418543D31 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:56:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from micheas@micheas.dyns.net) Received: (qmail 73368 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2003 05:56:29 -0000 Received: from tux.a (HELO tux) (mail@10.0.0.173) by sol.a with SMTP; 19 Dec 2003 05:56:29 -0000 Received: from micheas by tux with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AXDci-0000Yx-00 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:56:28 -0800 From: Micheas Herman To: FreeBSD LIST In-Reply-To: <20031219004318.W18755@rocket.alienwebshop.com> References: <20031219004318.W18755@rocket.alienwebshop.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Free Print Shop Message-Id: <1071813387.931.61.camel@tux> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:56:28 -0800 Sender: Micheas Herman Subject: Re: How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: micheas@freep.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:56:32 -0000 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