On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Styma, Robert E (Robert) < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have some machines which were left by someone > who left the company some years ago. They ware loaded > with Solaris 7 and have UFS file systems. They > also have SCSI disks and my Solaris 10 boot CD does > not have the correct drivers, thus it cannot see the > disk. > > I have tried booting from the System Rescue CD and > the UBUNTU cd and the FC8 recovery CD. Two of the > three can access the UFS file system, but only in > read only mode. I get a message saying that UFS > support was only compiled in read only mode. > > Does anyone know of a Linux boot from CD which has > the UFS read/write compiled in? I just need to tweek > the password file so I can get into these boxes. > I would rather not have to build a custom kernel and > then build a bootable CD from it. > > Bob Styma > Phoenix, AZ, USA > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > mounting a UFS in read write mode is not safe (still experimental), some people lost their data when trying to write on a UFS hard drive, that's why it's not enabled by default in any destro's kernel. add to that the ufs-linux project news are four years old: ( http://ufs-linux.sourceforge.net/) you may visit these posts: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/115396-edit-kernel-support-ufs-read-write.html http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/bsd-17/mounting-a-ufs-partition-in-linux-34664/ http://julipedia.blogspot.com/2004/11/linuxs-ufs-support.html http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mount_UFS_partitions
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