Subject: Re: Reading files from a NetBSD drive?
To: <>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/20/2003 00:34:19
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?

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk