From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 21:34:49 2004 Return-Path: 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 2F27216A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:34:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from xenial.mcc.ac.uk (xenial.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.203.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D4F443D31 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:34:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by xenial.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 1C9Vo7-0004vS-00; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:34:47 +0100 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i8KLYkYu038815; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:34:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.12.10/8.12.6/Submit) id i8KLYkZG038814; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:34:46 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 22:34:46 +0100 From: Jonathon McKitrick To: JohnsoBS@vicksburg.navy.mil Message-ID: <20040920213445.GA38763@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help with dying drive/restoring data X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:34:49 -0000 Okay, I found that the fixit disk is able to mount the filesystem on the dying drive. But I have a couple of problems. 1. Since this is a laptop (no CD-R or other mass storage besides the drive) I need a way to get a few big tarballs made and sent elsewhere. I don't think a floppy will work. I have a parallel port zip drive I will try tomorrow. I can't figure out how to get my wi interface up. I loaded the kld, inserted the card and heard it beep, but no interface shows up, or at least pccardd didn't load it correctly. Not sure what to do next. 2. My /usr partition is on slice ad0s1g, but mount on the fixit disk doesn't recognize that device. How can I mount this slice? jm -- My other computer is your Windows box.