Subject: Re: Reading files from a NetBSD drive?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/19/2003 23:58:06
In article <20030820003419.R2227@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>,
David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:17:29PM -0700, dmelton@banzuke.com wrote:
>> 
>> I know this is a wierd question...please no flames!
>> 
>> I've got a NetBSD machine that is having some hardware 
>> issues, but I need to copy a bunch of files off of its
>> hard drive, which is still working fine.  I hate to 
>> even ask this question, but is there a way to put a
>> BSD drive into a Win2000 machine and read the files from
>> it?  I only ask because I'd rather not spend the time
>> and effort to fix the old machine just to copy some files,
>> if there's a quicker and easier way to do it.
>
>Put the disk in, boot netbsd from cdrom, and copy the files over?
>Maybe you need a special install kernel with msdosfs support.
>
>Or put the disk in as drive zero, boot it and copy the files over?

Or ntfs volume; please note there there is only read only support
and we don't understand raid sets or dynamic volumes.

christos