This might help you out:

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Filesystems-HOWTO-9.html

> My son has a Solaris/x86 system with a dead motherboard.
> Since Solaris doesn't run on just any x86 hardware, our
> first issue is getting some of his data off his hard drive.
> 
> This would be on a Debian system.  If I bring up Linux
> with this hard drive installed as the secondary, will
> I be able to mount the Solaris volume as a secondary?
> Will I need to recompile with added drivers?
> 
> I'm looking for pointers to the how-to material
> that presumably is available on the Web.
> 
> (Worst case, since these are text files, we could just
> dig through the raw volume and find his stuff.
> This would work at least for his TADS text adventures
> which are the immediate concern.