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

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 V

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 chec

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. M

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 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 in

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 wh

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 sy

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 k

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 a

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 wi

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 l