Mounting dirty ext3 partition

From: nntp (asf_at_sadfkj.cosdf)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 04:17:16 -0400

I have a hard drive(ext3) that was taken from a linux machine that just bit
the dust. I installed this hdd as a second drive in a freebsd 5.1 system.
This computer has no cdrom drive, no floppy, and is not easy to get access
to it physically.

I am trying to mount the fs on the linux hard drive, here is what i've done.

1. recompiled kernel with "options EXT2FS"

willard# mount_ext2fs /dev/ad3s1 /mnt/old/
mount_ext2fs: /dev/ad3s1: Invalid argument

Now the last time this was booted in linux, the computer was turned off
"un-cleanly". From what i am reading, there is no way to mount this disk in
freebsd (without mounting it in linux and fsck'ing it first.). Is this
true......

Is there anyway i can do this without having to install a cdrom drive to
boot a linux cd on?

Thank you

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