Mounting BSD/OS 4.1 disk under FreeBSD 4.10

[Eric Anderson]

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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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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