I need to recover some files from my windows installation using a linux live cd. I have some imp documents in c: which i need to copy into a pen drive. Which will be the most suitable linux for this purpose?
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Which is the smallest Linux distro which can read ntfs partitions?
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Tagged distro, drive, imp, installation, Linux, linux distro, Linux Live CDs, partitions, pen, pen drive, purpose, windows installation
Did I install DSL (Damn Small Linux) Correctly? =S?
I have always been a mac guy but lately have been messing around with the command line and also learning how to program in Ruby. Today, I decided to install Damn Small Linux on my old computer in the garage. So I popped in the live cd, tested it out, then decided to do a hard drive install. I restarted, typed “install” at the command prompt then a list of options popped up. I went into cfdisk and deleted the windows partition (so there was my entire harddisk space free–no other partitions.) Then I clicked Create and clicked Primary and it asked how much space I wanted to use–I put half the total amount. Then I clicked create again and this time I clicked (I think it was called secondary or something like that??) and made the space the rest of the space I had left…this is the part that confused me. I wasn’t sure if I should have just made one primary linux partition or the two. Then it asked me if I wanted to install a boot loader (I guessed and said yes.) Did I do it right?
Oh, and after creating the two partitions I wrote them both to the disk, then said yes to installing Grub boot loader. Do I need a boot loader if only running DSL and no other OS? I also created two users, 1 root and 2 dsl–and gave them different passwords. Lastly, if I want to save a file to the desktop, it says there is no “Desktop” directory, so where do I save it to? On my mac I save my program files in a folder titled, “programs” then open the terminal and type: cd Desktop/programs
then type: ruby filename.rb
and it runs. How do I do this on DSL or linux in general?
Thanks!!
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Tagged boot loader, CFDISK, command, Correctly, Damn, damn small linux, DSL, Guy, Hard Drive, harddisk space, Linux, linux partition, Mac, mac guy, old computer, partition, partitions, ruby, small, space
How do I clone a drive to a partition on a bigger drive?
I had an old 60 gig drive with c and d partitions. got a sweet deal on a new 250 gig drive, copied the d partition over and expanded the c to fill the 60 gig. Did all this with gparted, which is a linux-based live cd with the gparted program on it.
Now I’ve decided I want to run windows of the faster new drive, so I shrunk the existing partition on the new drive, and created a 70 gig partition at the beginning. used gparted to copy the entire c (60 gig) drive to this partition.
1 hour later… ok it copies, so I take out the 60 gig, set the jumper to master on the 250, fire it up and….
Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt:
Please re-install a copy of the above file.
grr. fine. plug in the old 60 gig again, go into windows. copy hal.dll over manually. No luck, same message.
google around the past few days and my brain is aching.
norton ghost seems like an option but costs money…
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Tagged clone, deal, drive, gig, gig drive, gparted, Linux, partition, partitions, program, sweet deal
Writing Partitions on Linux?
I’m Using Knoppix Linux and i want to write partitions on my A Data 2 Gb flash drive so that i can have a live cd on that drive. It is in FAT 32 format and the CFDISK program wont let me write partitions because it says Fatal Error: Bad primary Partition 0. Partition Begins with end-of-disk. My ultimate goal is to have linux on a pendrive to boot to other computers and the instructions i got tell me to write partitions.
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Tagged 2 gb, CFDISK, data, drive, FAT, fatal error, flash drive, format, knoppix, Linux, partition, partitions, pendrive, program
Suse doesn`t recognize my hard drive during installation?
I used to try to install all versions of linux n also live cds on my lappy that is Toshiba m70 , but it used to be always stopped during intilizing the hardware , today i tried to install suse , but this time i choosed another choice , Installing ( Acpi=off ) instead of Installing only , i could enter the installation but it didn`t recognize my partitions n hard drive , what`s wrong with it ? please help me
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