What's the best way to retrieve files from the hard drive of a dead
laptop?
I have a three-year old Sony VAIO Z505JS laptop that refuses to start.
I've been through all the usual troubleshooting steps. It would cost
almost $100 just to get a repair quote from Sony's service department,
and a
They sell adapters that can hook a laptop sized hard drive to the ribbon
cable of a PC. Make it a secondary slave disk on a knowm good PC,
preferably on a network, boot up the PC, mount the secondary disk under
some /tmp mount point, then tar or cp to a backup area.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Roger
What's the best way to retrieve files from the hard drive of a dead
laptop?
Depends on how it died.
If it was non-hard drive related, the hard drive is IDE and, with a cheap
adapter, you can plug it in as a slave drive in any desktop to move data
over.
If the drive is the cause of the PC
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, at 5:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No. My understanding is that ypbind is only run on NIS clients, no?
No. It's run on everything -- the server is, indeed, still a client
Okay, I'm definitely confused now.
Nothing I've seen anywhere says that NIS servers have
This is what I get for playing too much GTA: Vice City instead of
reading e-mail.
Instead of saying what he said to Ken's responses, here's my
thoughts.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:03:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, at 5:45pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No. My
Michael O'Donnell wrote:
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Most are oriented toward assisting web developers in plying their craft.
Erik
When M1/ATT blocked port 80 during code red everybody moaned and bitched..
They eventually lifted the block but one of my friends didn't get lifted, he
still had a blocked port 80, so did everybody on his node..
Well, to make a long story short, he called about it and now he forever has
port 80
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, at 6:41pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just because they told you that they won't let you doesn't make it suck
any less that you can't...
And just because you or any number of other people think it sucks doesn't
mean their TOS don't apply. :-)
...and of course /no one/
In a message dated: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:10:45 EDT
Roger H. Goun said:
What's the best way to retrieve files from the hard drive of a dead
laptop?
I have a three-year old Sony VAIO Z505JS laptop that refuses to start.
Will it just not boot? I highly recommend getting a copy of Knoppix
on CD
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:14:24AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I know people will bring this up: Yes, there is a lack of
competition in the industry, and yes, cable monopolies are unfair, and yes,
business class Internet feeds are overpriced. None of that invalidates my
points.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Will it just not boot? I highly recommend getting a copy of Knoppix
on CD and attempting to boot from that. My wife's laptop died not
too long ago with a bad hard drive failure. I was able to boot off
of CD with Knoppix, which correctly identified all the system
Thanks for all the cogent responses. The laptop is genuinely dead, not
just hosed. (I run Debian unstable. I can tell the difference. :-) No
lights, no horrible grinding noises from the hard drive, nothing. I
tried two different known-good batteries, with and without the A/C
adapter, with and
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, ken == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ My copy of Managing NFS and NIS, by Hal Stern, page 23, says
+ that the NIS master should not include the +:: entry in the
+ /etc/passwd file. On page 26, it states that NIS clients must
+ have that entry.
ken Adding the +
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:56:01 -0400
Roger H. Goun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Once I figure out how to get the hard drive out (I've removed every
screw in sight, but still can't get the clamshell apart) so I can
verify that it's the standard 44-pin IDE interface, I'll order a
44-pin to 40-pin IDE
I burned some Knoppix 3.2 CD's recently (2003-06-06 release) and will be
bringing them to the meeting on the 25th as giveaways. First dibs
accepted from newbies.
-dl
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, ken == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+ No. My understanding is that ypbind is only run on NIS clients,
+ no?
ken No. It's run on everything -- the server is, indeed, still a
ken client (unless for some bizarre reason it was determined that
ken even though it served
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2) Is it running ypbind?
No. My understanding is that ypbind is only run on NIS clients, no?
No. It's run on everything -- the server is, indeed, still a client
(unless for some bizarre reason it was determined that even though it
served the data, it didn't need to
Erik Price wrote:
Man! I wish I'd thought of that a few weeks ago! I was in a similar
situation to the OP.
I'm going to keep a copy of Knoppix in my car's emergency kit.
A more minimal CD is @Stake's Security Toolkit:
http://www.atstake.com/research/tools/pst/
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:06:14PM -0400, you wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:56:01 -0400
Roger H. Goun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Once I figure out how to get the hard drive out (I've removed every
screw in sight, but still can't get the clamshell apart) so I can
verify that it's the
In a message dated: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 11:42:32 EDT
Tom Buskey said:
To fix it, I made all the YP slaves (and the master) bind to themselves.
Paul, do you remember that day?
No, I've subconsciously blocked it and other atrocities committed at
that location from my memory. It's just too painful
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 14:13:29 -0400
Chris Brenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Throw the NIC in a Windows box, register, and move the NIC to your
Linux system.
I just have a minimal Windows system installed for dual boot. My router
and desktop system have the same MAC address. Then you don't need to
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 14:13, Chris Brenton wrote:
Throw the NIC in a Windows box, register, and move the NIC to your Linux
system.
Does this mean you can't use routers/NATs like SMC Barricade?
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:23:27PM -0400, Jeff Macdonald wrote:
On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 14:13, Chris Brenton wrote:
Throw the NIC in a Windows box, register, and move the NIC to your Linux
system.
Does this mean you can't use routers/NATs like SMC Barricade?
My Barricade has a field
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:22:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Derek == Derek Martin wrote:
Derek Another way is to set up an NIS-like master-slave
Derek relationship with the master and one host on each subnet
Derek where systems which need the files live.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, at 12:56pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Once I figure out how to get the hard drive out (I've removed every
screw in sight, but still can't get the clamshell apart)
What brand and model?
One common thing: On many laptops, you need to remove the keyboard to
expose more
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:28:40PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, mark == Mark Komarinski wrote:
mark All you've done is reimplement NIS - poorly.
Well, that was basically the gist of the conversation, how to
implementt NIS without the flaws of NIS. I don't
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, at 4:05pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Imagine my suprise when I accidentally set a desktop's IP address to be
that of the NFS server.
You can't be a sysadmin for long without doing something like that. At my
first Unix job, I was there about 6 months before rebooting a
Anyone care to top that? (I have no doubt that some could; I'm curious if
What about an erroneous rsync --delete on the /etc directory? :)
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Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't even disagree with you.
Actually, you and I argued about this a long time ago on this list.
But if you don't disagree with me now, that's great.
--kevin
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