Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:18:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310102110280.55372@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <201310110258.r9B2wskF056153@wonkity.com> References: <20131006063608.23914935@hub.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310060745440.1936@wonkity.com> <201310110258.r9B2wskF056153@wonkity.com>
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote: > At 08:47 10/6/2013, Warren Block wrote: >> On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote: >> >>> Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. >>> >>> Very limited commands: "ls: not found". >>> >>> Why? What good are these disks if they don't have >>> the most basic of commands? >> >> The "emergency holographic shell" was always very limited. I suspect a >> path thing, with it looking for commands on the installed system. Old >> bare-bones tricks like "echo *" help. >> >>> Trying to clone a hard disk that has an number >>> of bad sectors. Trying to save most of my data. >>> >>> Want to use "recoverdisk", but can't get the >>> command line to work. >> >> Use mfsBSD: http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ > > Thanks, Warren. MFSBSD worked for me. > > Had to use 8.X because 9.X hangs. I think it has something > to do with my PS2 mouse and keyboard. 9.X still only seems > to work with USB peripherals--or is something else going on? > > I was a bit skittish using "recoverdisk" because I couldn't > find any explicit notation about source and target. > > # clone a hard disk > recoverdisk /dev/ad3 /dev/ad4 > > As it turns out, the first argument is the source and the > second is the target, as one might intuitively guess. However, > I've been burned before by guesses, so I hope someone will > update the man pages to make this obvious. It says recoverdisk [-b bigsize] [-r readlist] [-s interval] [-w writelist] source [destination] That seems pretty clear, although the text does not really explain what happens if the optional destination is not given. Output to stdout would be the standard expectation.
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