From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 22:21:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64F8A16A400 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:21:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) Received: from mail.familycareintl.org (mail.familycareintl.org [68.167.21.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29D7C13C45B for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:21:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:21:35 -0400 Message-ID: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9702D0D@www.fcimail.org> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: external drive Thread-Index: AcfDQK08p89lQ+cZQ2KyhGEJrnlJHQ== From: "Jean-Paul Natola" To: Cc: Subject: external drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:21:36 -0000 Hi all, After yesterdays fiasco trying to upgrade 5.5 to 6.2 - I just grabbed a = new drive and did a clean install of 6.2 Its working great, no errors I'm happy-=20 There are some files (basically some custom config and cf files) that I would like to copy from the 5.5 drive -=20 So I put it in an external enclosure and needless to say windows = wouldn't recognize it - and the MAC OSX though it sees it , it wont let me mount = it (despite the fact that I clicked mount drive )=20 2 questions; 1. Is there anything out there that would let me read a BSD drive from a windows or mac machine? 2. If I do just plug the drive into the BSD USB port will it cause any conflicts as there will be duplicates of the main slices /var /usr etc.. Or am I safe just plugging it in and mounting it? PS: Thanks to everyone for the feedback yesterday - I learned A LOT in = the last 24 hours=20 Jean-Paul=20