Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:52:05 -0500 From: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso? Message-ID: <20131011025209.80F09A96@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310060745440.1936@wonkity.com> References: <20131006063608.23914935@hub.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310060745440.1936@wonkity.com>
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At 08:47 10/6/2013, Warren Block wrote: >On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote: > >> Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. >> >> Very limited commands: "ls: not found". >> >> Why? What good are these disks if they don't have >> the most basic of commands? > >The "emergency holographic shell" was always very limited. I suspect a=20 >path thing, with it looking for commands on the installed system. Old=20 >bare-bones tricks like "echo *" help. > >> Trying to clone a hard disk that has an number >> of bad sectors. Trying to save most of my data. >> >> Want to use "recoverdisk", but can't get the >> command line to work. > >Use mfsBSD: http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ Thanks, Warren. MFSBSD worked for me. Had to use 8.X because 9.X hangs. I think it has something to do with my PS2 mouse and keyboard. 9.X still only seems to work with USB peripherals--or is something else going on? I was a bit skittish using "recoverdisk" because I couldn't find any explicit notation about source and target. # clone a hard disk recoverdisk /dev/ad3 /dev/ad4 As it turns out, the first argument is the source and the second is the target, as one might intuitively guess. However, I've been burned before by guesses, so I hope someone will update the man pages to make this obvious. Start Here to Find It Fast!=99 ->= http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $9.99 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/
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