Indeed, that was my first impulse as well once I noticed that the drive wouldn't mount under osx. Something is odd, however, with VirtualPC, and though openbsd 4.4 installs just fine, it will not then boot. Even though once I boot up the virtual machine using the CD, I can mount the newly formatted and installed drives just fine. Hence, I was wondering if there was something more direct. Hrm.
-Jarrett Jason Dixon wrote: > > On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:50:48PM -0700, jebyrnes wrote: >> Hello, all. I have a question. A long time ago in college I ran an >> openBSD >> server. It was an old, cantankerous machine, and eventually something >> happened to the motherboard, and it died. The drives, with all of their >> data, are still fine. In fact, I'd like to recover the data. In my >> current >> situation, I don't have access to the equipment to put together a new box >> with the old drives in it. I would like to get the data, off, however. >> All >> I have is a mac laptop. >> >> Will OSX be able to access these drives? Are their any utilities that >> would >> help in this? It's been a while since I hacked around at this level, so >> would appreciate any advice you all could give. Thanks. > > Find an external USB enclosure. Toss them in. Connect it. Boot > OpenBSD in a virtual machine. Mount drive. Read files. > > -- > Jason Dixon > DixonGroup Consulting > http://www.dixongroup.net/ > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Recovering-data-from-OpenBSD-drive-using-OSX-tp23340252p23361918.html Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
