Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 11:01:12 +0100 From: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> To: "Bsd Neophyte" <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: physically mounting a FreeBSD drive on a WinXP box Message-ID: <200212021001.GB2A1HI22404@asarian-host.net> References: <20021202070814.18661.qmail@web20105.mail.yahoo.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Bsd Neophyte" <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:08 AM Subject: physically mounting a FreeBSD drive on a WinXP box > i don't know if posting this question is relavant to this group... > but i was wondering if it was possible to physically mount > a former FreeBSD disk on a winxp box. > > i know someone would suggest that i mount the drive on the > FreeBSD box and get the files i need that way... however, this is > not an easy process. it would be alot easier if i could take the > drive and use something to take the files from my WinXP > system. Have you tried VMware? I use it all the time on my XP box, for test purposes. :) I installed a FreeBSD 4.7R OS on a VMware box, inside XP, that I can communicate with in all the normal ways, like FTP. VMware will easily allow you to add a physical drive to the configuration. So, set up something like FTP within your VMware box, and take the data right off the mounted drive within the VMware box. - Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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