I probably wouldn't be writing this email if the laptop was running
Linux, however, the story does involve Linux. I was trying to check my
email quickly on a laptop that has a battery life of about 10 minutes on
a full charge. I was mistaken, it has deteriorated to less than 2 minutes.
is power management working ? unless the battery is completely busted 2 minutes is very low.
hard drive and to the external USB hard drive -- both strategy failed,
protocol device not supported. Does anybody know why?
because Linux has no 'write' support for NTFS. This isnt because NTFS is rocket science, MS keeps changing entry points into the file system to particularly prevent that. You may write from NTFS to Fat 32 however, but no guarantees that youll get all your data out accurately.
Next tried Knoppix Live and Linspire Live but with the same result. As
NTFS but works quite reliably with Fat32.
Next solution, copy the files that I need to a DVD using K3b on Linux
-- that worked really easily, don't know why I have been putting off
burning CDs and DVDs on Linux until now, it was really simple.
or - a simpler method - boot up from Knoppix, enable Samba, add a dummy samba user that has read access to the files, go to a windows computer, go to the network neighborhood, look at the samba machine, access the files and you can check immediately whether it works.
moving over to Linux as well -- there are not may apps left on the dark
side :-) .
Weak laptop batteries are problematic regardless of the OS. Linux wont protect you all that much against constant power failure. Once or twice you may survive, but constant failures accumulate.
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