[nflug] Live CD help

[Michael Phillips]

To login as root from a normal user, type "sudo su -".  Can you show us the
following command you

fdisk -l /dev/hda

Michael

--- Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:

> 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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Michael D. Phillips - A computer science enthusiast
I do not hate Windows, I just like the alternatives better.
Linux is my primary choice.

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