If you have a live distro kicking around on a bootable CD/DVD, you should be able to boot from it and then do the recovery in the GUI of the live distro. Ubuntu and it's clones should auto mount flash or external HDDs when they are plugged in.
Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralph Boland" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 7 March, 2013 11:06:37 AM Subject: [clug-talk] mounting external drive or flash drive I need to mount an external drive or flash drive. To do this I need to add a command to the /etc/fstab file. But I don't know how to to this. Can anyone tell me how? My external drive is a Seagate. I don't know the brand, name, or serial # of my flash drive I can be contacted at: [email protected] (slow because I have to use a public library computer) 403-764-3681 In case you are wondering why I need to do this here is the story. I recently moved from Ubuntu to Debian Squeeze. I am happy with the move except that my Lyx files from my Ubuntu days were created with Lyx 2.0.3 but Squeeze runs Lyx 1.6.7 so I cannot use Lyx on these files on Squeeze. This is a major problem for me so I tried to get Lyx 2.0.3 installed on Squeeze eventuallly trying to get it from sid. But unfortunately, a lot of other things got loaded from sid and broke my system. I am planning to reinstall an operating system to clean the mess up but first I need to back up about a day of programming work. Currently on boot up I am given a plain login screen (XWindows is not running). I can also run in recovery mode. But if I plug in a flash drive or external hard drive it is not mounted though the system recognizes that the drive has been plugged in. The system complains that fstab does not contain a mount command for the drive. Other options: 1) start XWindows. I tried startx but it doesn't run properly. 2) ftp my files somewhere. I need a where and I don't know if I have an internet connection. 3) Buy and install a second hard drive. Seems like overkill. 4) ????? Thanks in advance for any help, Ralph (Rocky) Boland _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
