Mounting flash drives in  solaris failsafe mode

Hello all,
Suppose our system has crashed and we cannot login in solaris normal mod. But we need the data.
I have done the following exercises to take the back up of the file system.
1:- logged in fail safe mode.
2:- mounted the file system in to a mount point.
3:- took the backup of the file system using cpio command as /a/man.back.
4:- tried this command "mount -F pcfs /dev/c4t0d0p0:1 /a/flash" to mount the flash drive. But it failed.
How can we mount the flash drive in fail safe mode?
or, Is there any other way to take the backup of the file system to an external device to restore after re-installing the OS.
I would greatly appreciate it, if you could help me to rectify this problem.
Thank You
Regards,
Sajan.

Thanks, macbig...no joy yet, but definitely a helpful link.
I've confirmed via System Profiler on laptop #3 that my external USB drive is formatted as MS-DOS FAT32, so mount_msdos seems like the right utility to use. (The drive shows up there as /dev/disk1s1.) Meanwhile, "ls /dev/disk*" on the problem machine returns the following:
/dev/disk0 /dev/disk0s1 /dev/disk0s2 /dev/disk1 /dev/disk1s1 /dev/disk1s2 /dev/disk1s3 /dev/disk2 /dev/disk2s1
I've created /Volumes/rescue as a mount point and tried most of those devices with "/sbin/mount_msdos [device] /Volumes/rescue", with the following results:
/dev/disk1:
mount_msdos: Unsupported sector size (0)
/dev/disk1s1:
mount_msdos: Unsupported sector size (1)
/dev/disk1s2:
mount_msdos: /dev/disk1s2: Bad file descriptor
/dev/disk1s3:
mount_msdos: Unsupported sector size (0)
/dev/disk2:
mount_msdos: Unsupported sector size (64543)
/dev/disk2s1:
kextload: cannot resolve dependencies for kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/msdosfs.kext
error loading extension /System/Library/Extensions/msdosfs.kext
mount_msdos: msdos filesystem is not available
Based on this, I'm guessing that disk2s1 is the device I want. Unfortunately, when I try to poke around in /System/Library/Extensions, I'm getting I/O errors...gah. I have a bad feeling about this.

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