From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 18:11:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 B62D116A41F for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 18:11:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from software@schmittnet.com) Received: from host.idesigns.net (host.idesigns.net [209.239.38.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DEA743D45 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 18:11:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from software@schmittnet.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (seymour-cuda1-69-173-83-136.albyny.adelphia.net [69.173.83.136]) by host.idesigns.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j96IBAmq019203 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:11:14 -0400 Message-ID: <434568BB.9090904@schmittnet.com> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:11:07 -0400 From: "Bill Schmitt (SW)" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Restoring Data from a DD image X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 18:11:16 -0000 I've just replaced a hard disk that was dying fast. I've done a full installation of 4.9 (later releases won't install, which I've submitted a problem report on already). The old disk is connected but not mounted. Searching around, I found some suggestions to try to read the old disk to restore what I can and I used dd to copy what could be found (dd -if=/dev/ad0s1e of=/usr/olddsk/oldimag.dmg conv=noerror,sync) and it seems to have copied the file. Now, I'm a little stuck. Can someone help me understand how do I mount that image somewhere to browse it and copy what I can from it? If I'm not going about this the right way, I'd appreciate other suggestions