From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 11 02:52:09 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F09A96 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 02:52:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wd@us-webmasters.com) Received: from super.grabweb.com (super.grabweb.com [64.237.47.132]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1DB402F9A for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2013 02:52:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27342 invoked from network); 10 Oct 2013 22:52:06 -0400 Received: from batv-01-092.dsl.netins.net (HELO Erika.US-Webmasters.com) (207.199.193.92) by 64-237-47-169.constant.com with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 10 Oct 2013 22:52:05 -0400 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:52:05 -0500 To: Warren Block From: "W. D." Subject: Re: Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso? In-Reply-To: References: <20131006063608.23914935@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <20131011025209.80F09A96@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 02:52:09 -0000 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/