Re: Mounting BSD/OS 4.1 disk under FreeBSD 4.10

From: Eric Anderson (anderson_at_centtech.com)
Date: 07/29/05

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    Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:27:21 -0500
To: Keith Woodworth <kwoody@citytel.net>

    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 

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