Adil Kodian wrote: > > is power management working ? unless the battery is completely busted > 2 minutes is very low.
Power management still works, the battery is a total bust. > > 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. Good idea, will try that next time. > > 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. It felt a lot better when I can blame it on ms. :-( _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
