Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system *SOLVED*

2008-02-15 Thread Joe Demeny
On Thursday 14 February 2008 05:49:45 pm Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:55:42PM -0500, Joe Demeny wrote: Actually, I can now mount my old 4.x boot drive cleanly when I hook up this drive in a 6.2 machine. However, I think I need to get the old boot drive to be able to

Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system

2008-02-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
So, I installed this drive as the second hard drive in a FreeBSD 6.2 system and I tried to mount it, but I got incorrect super block. Looks like I have /dev/ad1, /dev/ad1s1, /dev/ad1s1c, and /dev/ad1s1e. no ad1s1a? Is there a way to mount these filesystems? possibly try fsck - i don't

Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system

2008-02-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
possibly try fsck - i don't know (my first FreeBSD was 5.*) but maybe UFS changed a bit? Nope, I have had machines that I upgraded from 4 to 5 and 6 without changing the hard disk, and without changing the file system. So, I installed this drive as the second hard drive in a FreeBSD 6.2

Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system

2008-02-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:08:35AM -0500, Joe Demeny wrote: I have an old Cyrix computer which doesn't post any more. It had 3 hard drives. The boot drive had the / partition as well as /usr and /var, and the other 2 drives were configured with Vinum RAID 1 for /home. I hooked up what

Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system

2008-02-14 Thread Joe Demeny
On Thursday 14 February 2008 04:49:05 am you wrote: possibly try fsck - i don't know (my first FreeBSD was 5.*) but maybe UFS changed a bit? Nope, I have had machines that I upgraded from 4 to 5 and 6 without changing the hard disk, and without changing the file system. So, I installed

Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system

2008-02-14 Thread Joe Demeny
On Thursday 14 February 2008 12:04:11 pm you wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:08:35AM -0500, Joe Demeny wrote: [...] Use fdisk to find out how it sees the drive. Do fdisk ad1 and check out what it says. Especially look to see what slices that fdisk thinks it has. Maybe there is

Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system

2008-02-14 Thread Joe Demeny
On Thursday 14 February 2008 03:46:14 pm Tim Daneliuk wrote: Joe Demeny wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008 12:04:11 pm you wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:08:35AM -0500, Joe Demeny wrote: [...] Use fdisk to find out how it sees the drive. Do fdisk ad1 and check out what it

Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system

2008-02-14 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Joe Demeny wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008 12:04:11 pm you wrote: On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:08:35AM -0500, Joe Demeny wrote: [...] Use fdisk to find out how it sees the drive. Do fdisk ad1 and check out what it says. Especially look to see what slices that fdisk thinks it has.

Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system

2008-02-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:55:42PM -0500, Joe Demeny wrote: Actually, I can now mount my old 4.x boot drive cleanly when I hook up this drive in a 6.2 machine. However, I think I need to get the old boot drive to be able to boot, so I could then get to my other old drives, which are Vinum

Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system

2008-02-13 Thread Joe Demeny
I have an old Cyrix computer which doesn't post any more. It had 3 hard drives. The boot drive had the / partition as well as /usr and /var, and the other 2 drives were configured with Vinum RAID 1 for /home. I hooked up what used to be the boot drive in a new system and it showed what looked

Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system

2008-02-13 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Joe Demeny [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:08:35AM -0500: I have an old Cyrix computer which doesn't post any more. It had 3 hard drives. The boot drive had the / partition as well as /usr and /var, and the other 2 drives were configured with

Re: Trying to recover data from FreeBSD 4.11 system

2008-02-13 Thread Joe Demeny
On Thursday 14 February 2008 01:43:19 am you wrote: This One Time, at Band Camp, Joe Demeny [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:08:35AM -0500: I have an old Cyrix computer which doesn't post any more. It had 3 hard drives. The boot drive had the / partition as well as /usr