[nflug] Live CD help

[Joe]

Thanks.  That showed me it's on hda5.
Anybody know how to fix the screen display problem (1)?

Any idea what hda2 and hda3 are?  Machine has never had OS/2 on it.

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?

Thanks.

Joe

fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 10.0 GB10056130560 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1222 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot     Start         End      Blocks     Id  System
/dev/hda1    *             1        607      4875696    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2                608      1204     4795402    f   W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3              1205      1222       144585  84   OS/2  hidden C: 
drive
/dev/hda5                608      1204      4795371   b   W95 FAT32


Michael Phillips wrote:
> 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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