Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:55:19 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Chip Oakley <silverskymusic2@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Technical Support Question Message-ID: <201202160856.q1G8tJoB007264@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:14:03 EST." <CAPohJ98WUQb30_jj7hhxv1cVzFqJB5aUi4NqSx4tPGQNbxt0Tw@mail.gmail.com>
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Chip Oakley wrote: > Hello, > > I am upgrading to BSD from windows. > > I am having complications with an old password from Windows that I cannot > remember. > > I created an ISO Boot CD on another computer and installed it and made sure > to set the BIOS to boot from CD, to no avail. There's 2 types of PC boot CDs I believe, FreeBSD changed to the newer method in last year or so I think (maybe just for 8.* ?), so if yours is an older PC it might be looking for the other sort. You could try a few years old (eg 6.* or probably 7.*) FreeBSD CDROM for interest to see if that boots. > Is there a way to access the executable files from the CD Question not clear. You can access to read & execute all files from CDROM, by using the LIVEFS (live file system) option. To access files on the MS partition[s], If fdisk shows the MS still present you can also mount the MS file systems from BSD (regardless whether BSD is booted & running from CD or hard disk) For that you would need either mount -t msdosfs ..... if its an older FS or mount -t ntfs -r ..... if its a newer NTFS it only support read only mode, That mount command calls eg /sbin/mount_msdosfs /sbin/mount_ntfs Thats where they are on a hard disc. If FreeBSD hasnt installed yet, you'll find them I recall under something like /mnt2/sbin/mount_msdosfs (I think the cd is already mounted) If you want to write individual files on an MS NTFS you need ntfs-3g which is partly broken (one error noted in my http://berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/shrink/ & a lot easier to run from a hard disk working system. > and overwrite > windows for my BSD installation? Well if you just wanted to trash the MS & not recover data ? that's easy, the fdisk within BSD install should do it, but you could always try something like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=1000 DO NOT TRY THAT ON ANY SYSTEM WITH ANY DATA YOU VALUE Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/
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