Wassup rockers and LUG team mates:
Today's armchair quarterback question is:
I am attempting to retrieve files from two hard disks on a machine with a
Microsoft XP operating system (i386), which has failed and would require a
new XP install from the original media, which I have but my CD/DVD drives
are failing and aren't locating the XP OS CD upon boot.
The last time the XP was backed up was 12/22/17, about 12 & 1/2 months ago,
so I don't need to cp all of both drives, just whatever items I added in
Documents file on one of them, and then some scans I've added on the other
disk drive.
Last time I did anything like this it was with a slackware ISO, and I am
this time using a freeBSD 12 edition USB bootable live ISO. The thing is
booting, but I am unable to mount my USB-connected Western Digital external
hard drive (onto which my backups are going) nor have I been able to
successfully mount the SDA0 or SDA1 (the two SATA hard discs on the XP
tower)
I cannot edit fstab because it's a live ISO therefore ro. The closest, I
think, that I got was via the information at this link:
http://kflu.github.io/2018/02/03/2018-02-03-freebsd-ntfs/
I was able to initiate, from the ISO kernel, the kldload fuse command, yet
no luck with ntfs-3g script. Maybe that old XP's using FAT not ntfs?
Any input is welcome,
~Juan Otto, clug wrench