From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 18: 8:12 2002 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 9CB7D37B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (gemini.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C5A43E42 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:08:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de) Received: from lilith (lilith.wh-wurm.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g7818266014137 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT); Thu, 8 Aug 2002 03:08:06 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <000c01c23e78$0e344760$406a3c86@whwurm.uniulm.de> From: "Siegbert Baude" To: "Peter Leftwich" Cc: "FreeBSD LIST" References: <20020807203037.L33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Subject: Re: mount_msdos woes [JOY] Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 03:08:02 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm going to try this ports/sysutils/gpart tool -- I suppose I have no > other recourse -- by getting it onto a fixit floppy or... can one boot up > to the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp floppies then replace the latter with > another floppy to mount that would be ufs-formatted and contain the gpart > binary? Sorry never tried this. > That might cause a problem. Do you recommend I colocate the victim HDD in > with the one I am using now, and run gpart on it from the currently booted > HDD? I think I ought to be patient and not jump right in (but I'm very > excited). (:-) That's the way I did it. If you really go this way, ask the owner of this disk, if he can at least give a vague approximation of the partition table or the respective partiton sizes. This really helps a lot to identify wrong assumptions. Make sure to dd the whole disk first as backup. Writing extended partition tables is in the middle of the disk, so you can easily destroy data. If there were only primary partitions on the disk, things are much easier. If in doubt of anything ask first. I'm also on ICQ, but we have to find a time slot, when we're both awake. ;-) > If gpart fixes my woes, I'll donate $5 to $10 to your favorite charity in > your name (or something like www.bsdforums.org - no joke) I think the FreeBSD project would earn it most. :-) Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message