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can't read CD for SunOS
I have a CD-ROM made for SunOS 4 (BSD based). I didn't want the
software on it (which is 20 years old), but a sample dataset therein. I am unable to read it. Windows does not see the CD. In Ubuntu, there is a long error message - can't mount, wrong fs or bad superblock blah blah. I thought all CD used HSFS. Did SunOS use something different? The CD has no blemishes - it had been stored in a dark dry place all those years. |
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can't read CD for SunOS
BW wrote:
I have a CD-ROM made for SunOS 4 (BSD based). I didn't want the software on it (which is 20 years old), but a sample dataset therein. I am unable to read it. Windows does not see the CD. In Ubuntu, there is a long error message - can't mount, wrong fs or bad superblock blah blah. I thought all CD used HSFS. Did SunOS use something different? The CD has no blemishes - it had been stored in a dark dry place all those years. OK, in Ubuntu, go to Synaptic package manager, enter "disktype" and try to install that small utility. On some versions of Ubuntu, that will require enabling all the repositories then reloading the package manager. The actual source code is here. You could build it from source, but if you try hard enough, it's a package in Synaptic. http://disktype.sourceforge.net/ That program will scan hard drives (partition or whole disk), optical discs (tell you what file systems are in usage), and so on. And attempt to give you information on it. disktype /dev/sda (might checm MBR and tell you the four primaries) disktype /dev/sda1 (check first partition and tell you the type) disktype some.iso (check a CD image, tell you what file system) Ubuntu has support for obscure file systems. For example, there are tools for handling MacOS file systems (HFS, HFSPlus). I was able, with some effort, to bring over a sector-by-sector copy of my Macintosh hard drive, and extract files from it. The package in that case, didn't even "mount" the file system (so you don't get the traditional random access as such). It was a very crude tool, which allowed up to list things, makes a copy of a single item and so on. But still very useful. Where I've had trouble though, is dealing with FreeBSD partitions. I think you really need a BSD OS installed on a system, to work with those. I don't think GParted will touch them. Paul |
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can't read CD for SunOS
En el artículo , Paul
escribió: Where I've had trouble though, is dealing with FreeBSD partitions. I think you really need a BSD OS installed on a system, to work with those. FreeBSD uses UFS, and I've successfully mounted and read Tru64 UNIX UFS filesystems on Linux. -- (\_/) (='.'=) (")_(") |
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