Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:27:21 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Keith Woodworth <kwoody@citytel.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mounting BSD/OS 4.1 disk under FreeBSD 4.10 Message-ID: <42E9A219.7000504@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20050728201237.Y98333@pop.citytel.net> References: <20050728201237.Y98333@pop.citytel.net>
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Keith Woodworth wrote: > Had a BSD/OS 4.1 disk go flaky the other day. So using this as my chance > to upgrade another one of our machines to FreeBSD I isntalled FBSD on a > new drive and there is some data I'd like to pull off the old BSD/OS drive > (its BSD/OS 4.1). > > BSD/OS drive is seen by FBSD as ad2, new drive is ad0. > > I added some entries into /etd/fstab for ad2 in various combos and tried > to mount ad2 but I get: > > ad2s2 slice starts beyond end of disk. > incorrect superblock. > > Ive tried ad2s1a, ad2s1, ad2a and pretty much get the same thing. > > Wonder if its possible? I could do this other ways but it involved network > restores, scp etc and I'm lazy and though it would be quicker and cleaner > to just mount the old disk of possible. > > Anyone know? Or wonder if BSD/OS can mount a FBSD disk? What does disklabel report on ad2? I think BSD/OS ran regular UFS (1), so it seems very possible to be able to mount it. I would highly suggest only doing ro mounts on it anyhow. You might also try ad2(a,c,e) and see if there are labels on any of them. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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