Mount NetBSD partition/slice

[Milan Obuch]

On Sun, 06 Sep 2015 01:13:53 -0700
Don whY <Don.whY at gmx.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've pulled the media from my NetBSD systems (6.x?) before moving to
> FreeBSD (9.2).  The goal was to set up FreeBSD-based appliances and
> maintain them from FreeBSD *systems*.
> 
> However, I've been having a tough time getting FreeBSD to play nice
> with the NetBSD media.  A bit of research indicates that there is
> no support for these incompatible volume formats.
> 
> So, I can either rebuild one of more NetBSD systems and pull all
> the data across a network connection.  This could be tedious as
> there are 10-12 slices of significant size on each volume.  (I had
> hoped to just install the drives in the FreeBSD boxen and cp(1) the
> contents of the volume at bus speeds.)
> 
> Or, just rebuild the NetBSD systems and make NetBSD-based appliances
> (i.e., abandon FreeBSD).
> 
> [I'm not an OS zealot; I'm just looking for something that *works*
> with the least amount of wasted effort/time]
> 
> Have I missed some "trick" to coax NetBSD into *reading* these
> volumes?
> 
> Thanks!
> --don
>

What does 'gpart show' under FreeBSD say? I did not test NetBSD for a
long time, but maybe there is some solution for you...

Milan