On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:44:50 +0100
Joachim Schipper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:31:33PM +0000, Larry O'Neill (H.S.A.) wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I have a disk from an Alpha server that I need to get data from... The
> > Alpha server no longer boots, and I dont have the time right now to
> > diagnose the problem. So I took the disk and lashed it into a Sun Ultra60,
> > which is also running OpenBSD. My problem is that I cant remember all of
> > the details of the partitioning that the disk had... So in terms of
> > getting access to the data, how do I find out what to put into disklabel
> > for it? Unfortunately due to other complications, I currently dont have
> > fdisk on the machine.
> >
> > (only 2 slots for Ultra2 SCSI Wide, one was root disk, other was /usr.
> > Copied as much stuff onto the root disk that space would alow, so that I
> > could remove the origional /usr disk and put in the one I need the data
> > from. This caused some stuff not to work because not all of it could be
> > copied over)
>
> As Theo pointed out, this is rather difficult (though I had no idea it
> was *that* difficult, honestly).
Just because the label is built just for a particular arch
imho you still can use dd and the raw device .
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