On Saturday 03 November 2007, Jon Drukman wrote: > Hm, anything that works in Freebsd 4.9? I've never been able to > install 5.0 or higher on this machine, it always freezes when booting.
In 4.x the analogous command is called vnconfig with slightly different syntax. > On Nov 2, 2007 10:22 PM, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 02 November 2007, Jon Drukman wrote: > > > I was trying to transplant my system from a small, old drive to a > > > big, new one. I made a dd dump of the entire small drive, but then I > > > accidentally destroyed the drive (be careful with bare drives and > > > metal PC cases...) > > > > > > Anyway, I have the dd file but I don't have a spare drive onto which > > > to copy it. Is there a way to read its contents/mount it/explore > > > it/hopefully extract files from it on a running system? > > > > Yes there is: > > > > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f "/path/to/dd/image/file" > > > > That will cause the file to be treated as an md device. See also man > > mdconfig. The output of that command is the newly created /dev/md? > > device node. Depending on whether you dumped the whole disk, a slice, > > or a partition there may be additional devices. If you dd'ed the whole > > disk your former root partition might show up as /dev/md0s1a, for > > example. > > > > Once you've identified the device node(s) that contain(s) the > > filesystem(s) you're interested in, just mount it/them like you would > > any other device, e.g. > > mount /dev/md0s1a /mnt > > > > JN _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
