I would try a newer knoppix. 3.3 is pretty old and 4.0 likely has more robust support. I would think that DSL has speed/size in mind, and might trade off hardware support for it. <br><br>As for your tar command, look at the -p and -s switches to see if you need them. -p does permissions, -s has something to do with file order. You could always just do a dd if=/dev/hda1 of=
d.drive.backup and tar that up, i think.<br><br><br>jsk<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/30/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Phillips</b> <<a href="mailto:linux478@yahoo.com">linux478@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">To login as root from a normal user, type "sudo su -". Can you show us the
<br>following command you<br><br>fdisk -l /dev/hda<br><br>Michael<br><br>--- Joe <<a href="mailto:josephj@main.nc.us">josephj@main.nc.us</a>> wrote:<br><br>> I (still) need to backup my Windoze 98se notebook computer hard disk to
<br>> a usb hard disk. The usb disk shows up fine in windoze.I tried to use<br>> Ghost, but couldn't get it to work.<br>><br>> My friend Pete suggested I just boot a Live CD of Linux, mount both<br>> drives and just tar one to the other. Great idea, but I'm having some
<br>> trouble getting it to work.<br>><br>> I have a Damn Small Linux (DSL) cd that boots fine (aside from the fact<br>> that I have no mouse and no sound), but I have two issues with it.<br>> 1) When I open a virtual terminal, the window extends way off the bottom
<br>> of the screen and I have to type blind and then hit return 10 or 15<br>> times to get it to scroll up to see what it did. I could live with<br>> that, but ....<br>><br>> 2) When I try to issue a mount command, it complains that I'm not root.
<br>> OK, so I issue an su to get root and the blinking thing wants a password<br>> and I have no idea what it is.<br>><br>> I have a Knoppix 3.3 Live CD. It works about the same as DSL, but gives<br>> me root in a the virtual terminal so I can do things.
<br>> Issues:<br>> 1) Same as 1 for DSL<br>><br>> 2) I am currently backing up my C: drive as follows:<br>> tar -cvzf /mnt/sda1/cdrive.tgz /mnt/hda1<br>> Will this preserve everything I need to do a full restore if necessary?
<br>><br>> 3) My hard disk is partitioned into C: and D: . It works fine in<br>> Windoze except that Norton One Click Checkup always refuses to do<br>> anything with the D: and says something about it not being set up right.
<br>><br>> Knoppix creates /mnt/hda1 /mnt/hda3 and /mnt/sda[1-3]<br>> When I try mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 it complains about the filesystem<br>> type and fails. I think this is where my D: drive should be.<br>
> When the backup of C: finishes, I'm going to try adding a -t vfat to the<br>> mount command, but I don't think it's going to help.<br>><br>> Any ideas as to how I should "find" my D: drive and get it mounted so I
<br>> can back it up?<br>><br>> Thanks.<br>><br>> Joe<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> nflug mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org
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