Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

2007-11-07 Thread Chad Gross
On Nov 7, 2007 7:44 PM, Chad Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 3, 2007 3:38 PM, Jon Drukman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 3, 2007 9:23 AM, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vnconfig is the predecessor of mdconfig. It should be present in 4.9. thanks, it is. however, i am

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

2007-11-07 Thread Chad Gross
On Nov 3, 2007 3:38 PM, Jon Drukman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 3, 2007 9:23 AM, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vnconfig is the predecessor of mdconfig. It should be present in 4.9. thanks, it is. however, i am unable to mount the vnconfig'd device. any ideas? i made the

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

2007-11-07 Thread Jon Drukman
On Nov 7, 2007 4:52 PM, Chad Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # mount /dev/vn0s1a /mnt mount: /dev/vn0s1a on /mnt: incorrect super block You have to mount the device with 'mount -t cd9660' because it is an ISO which is a cd9660 format. Never mind I saw imagine and thought ISO. I

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

2007-11-03 Thread Jon Drukman
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. 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

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

2007-11-03 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 3 Nov 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. Please don't top post. vnconfig is the predecessor of mdconfig. It should be present in 4.9. -Warren Block * Rapid

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

2007-11-03 Thread John Nielsen
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,

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

2007-11-03 Thread Jon Drukman
On Nov 3, 2007 9:23 AM, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: vnconfig is the predecessor of mdconfig. It should be present in 4.9. thanks, it is. however, i am unable to mount the vnconfig'd device. any ideas? i made the backup originally just by doing dd if=/dev/ad0 of=some.file then i ran

Mounting/examining dd image?

2007-11-02 Thread Jon Drukman
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

Re: Mounting/examining dd image?

2007-11-02 Thread John Nielsen
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