At 01:58 10/6/2013, Polytropon wrote: >On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 01:29:19 -0500, W. D. wrote: >> Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. >> >> Very limited commands: "ls: not found". > >Try /rescue/ls explicitely instead. > > > >> Why? What good are these disks if they don't have >> the most basic of commands? > >Only live systems offer more than the "holographic shell" >when booted properly. FreeSBIE has been a very good live >system in the past, but the current installers also allow >you to drop into a working shell environment at a very >early stage (from within bsdinstall). > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall/b >sdinstall-choose-mode.png > >This dialog should bring you into a working shell. I've >been using it myself for disk initialization with a >FreeBSD 9.1 CD.
Thanks, Polytropon. I couldn't get FrieSBIE to work. Hung up. Used mfsBSD instead. Had to use 8.X because 9.X hangs. I think it has something to do with my PS2 mouse and keyboard. > > > >> Trying to clone a hard disk that has an number >> of bad sectors. Trying to save most of my data. > >A good approach. If possible, try to obtain a 1:1 copy >of the disk (or partition) and work with that. Check >the mailing list archives for further inspiration. > > > > >-- >Polytropon >Magdeburg, Germany >Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 >Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Start Here to Find It Fast! -> http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $9.99 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
