How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly
Micheas Herman
micheas at freep.org
Thu Dec 18 21:56:32 PST 2003
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 21:48, Peter Leftwich wrote:
> I thought I would GIVE BACK to the BSD community and share my breakthrough:
>
> Here is how to mount your freebsd partition from Linux (in my case, it was
> a CD-R of the Debian-based bootable known as Knoppix available from
> www.knoppix.net). As long as your Linux environment can "see" the
> partition, such as /mnt/hda2 (for example), you first
>
> $ umount /mnt/hda2
> $ mkdir /mnt/freebsdpartition
> $ mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/hda2 /mnt/freebsdpartition
>
> The only thing I could not figure out was how to "su" my currently-running
> X session. That would allow me to use KDE and Konqueror to browse
> graphically to the directory /mnt/freebsdpartition ... anyone know how?
In knoppix you have to set root's password before you can su.
[ctl][alt][F2] will get you to a root prompt. enter passwd, type in
root's password and voila, you are good to go.
Micheas
>
> Happy holidays everyone, and happy reading-of-the-manpages!! :0)
>
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