[nflug] Live CD help

[Joe]

I (still) need to backup my Windoze 98se notebook computer hard disk to 
a usb hard disk.  The usb disk shows up fine in windoze.I tried to use 
Ghost, but couldn't get it to work.

My friend Pete suggested I just boot a Live CD of Linux, mount both 
drives and just tar one to the other.  Great idea, but I'm having some 
trouble getting it to work.

I have a Damn Small Linux (DSL) cd that boots fine (aside from the fact 
that I have no mouse and no sound), but I have two issues with it.
1) When I open a virtual terminal, the window extends way off the bottom 
of the screen and I have to type blind and then hit return 10 or 15 
times to get it to scroll up to see what it did.  I could live with 
that, but ....

2) When I try to issue a mount command, it complains that I'm not root.  
OK, so I issue an su to get root and the blinking thing wants a password 
and I have no idea what it is.

I have a Knoppix 3.3 Live CD.  It works about the same as DSL, but gives 
me root in a the virtual terminal so I can do things.
Issues:
1)  Same as 1 for DSL

2) I am currently backing up my C: drive as follows:
tar -cvzf /mnt/sda1/cdrive.tgz /mnt/hda1
Will this preserve everything I need to do a full restore if necessary?

3) My hard disk is partitioned into C: and D: .  It works fine in 
Windoze except that Norton One Click Checkup always refuses to do 
anything with the D: and says something about it not being set up right.

Knoppix creates /mnt/hda1 /mnt/hda3 and /mnt/sda[1-3]
When I try mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 it complains about the filesystem 
type and fails.  I think this is where my D: drive should be.
When the backup of C: finishes, I'm going to try adding a -t vfat to the 
mount command, but I don't think it's going to help.

Any ideas as to how I should "find" my D: drive and get it mounted so I 
can back it up?

Thanks.

Joe


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