Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 22:04:00 -0400 From: Elliot Robinson <elliot.robinson@argiopetech.com> To: "Martin G. McCormick" <martin@server1.shellworld.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mounting One of the memstick Image Files Message-ID: <CAG7kECMt%2B1evfqZhrSgdGdHo8-%2BMwHBjnVqX_9Of8s%2B3TVGfPA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140822014853.0D2F1229A7@server1.shellworld.net> References: <20140822014853.0D2F1229A7@server1.shellworld.net>
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Martin G. McCormick < martin@server1.shellworld.net> wrote: > Elliot Robinson writes: > > I know your pain. On Linux, `mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd` is what > you're > > looking for. This requires that your system knows how to write UFS, > which > > might be a problem. > > > > A possibly easier way to do this would be to boot off the memstick, > > remount > > root as rw, and make the change from the live memstick. I've seen some > > problems reading any new/modified files created by doing this from > > Linux (complains about bad inodes), but it seems to work from the BSD > > perspective... > > Thank you to both posters on this topic. If I could > mount the image file on the FreeBSD system, I would do all the > editing there and then copy the modified image back to the > Debian system to dd in to the thumb drive. I actually got the > image that way to start with. > When one uses the Linux fdisk program on the drive > afterward, it reports that there is both a BSD and DOS magic > number and advises the caller to run fdisk with the -b bsd flag. > I suspect there is a boot manager of some type that will catch > Windows systems in case somebody wants to boot off the memstick > on a Windows system. > In this case, all I want to do is mount the image in a > native FreeBSD environment to actually do the work on adding the > comconsole line. All Linux has to do in this exercise is to feed > the new modified image back in to the memstick with dd. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Ah, apologies. I seem to have misunderstood the initial question. Perhaps this section from the handbook will be of help? https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-virtual.html --- Elliot Robinson PGP Key: 9FEDE59A
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