On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 02:48:09PM +0200, Laurens Vets wrote: > Hey Swa, > > >I seem to have painted myself in a corner somehow. > >I can't upgrade without getting the data off of the system and it > >doesn't want to play nice with USB drives. > > > <stuff cut> > > > >I could try to look at old school BSD stuff and think about > >building a new kernel, but the amount > >of "don't do that" seems to be high, so is there a better path ? Where ? > > > >I know it's an old release, trying to fix that, but in order to > >get there ... > > And there's no way to temporarily add an internal disk to an onboard > IDE port or something? > > -Laurens >
Just plug the temp disk in to the IDE port (hoping it doesn't appear earlier than your existing disk in the probe or boot process!), then do the fdisk/disklabel/newfs/mount dance, copy your data off to the new filesystem, and it should be accessable to the new 4.6 install. .... Ken
