How to add a disk to a new system without losing the data on it?

[Bob Collins]

At 03:28 PM 9/12/2003, Vincent Zee wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:19:42 -0400, Veritas wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 21:16:45 +0200
> > Vincent Zee <basics at zenzee.cistron.nl> wrote:
> >
> >>  Hi,
> >>
> >>  In the dmesg it comes up as ad5 but when I mount it, it can't find the
> >>  device.
> >>
> >>  mount ad5 /music2
> >>  mount: ad5: No such file or directory
> >
> > Try it as /dev/ad5 instead.
>
>Hi, I tried that and I got the same response.
>
>I also made a device entry for it in /dev
>
>cd /dev
>sh MAKEDEV ad5
>
>mount /dev/ad5 /music2
>mount: /dev/ad5 on /music2: incorrect super block
>
>/\
>Vincent

You need a slice there. If the system found the disk and booted fine. Look 
in /dev and see what is listed as ad5? Is there an ad5s1 ad5s2 ad5s3 ad5s4 
etc? You will need to mount one of them.

ad5 is the disk, you need a slice or partition...