Carl Lowenstein wrote: > I have been trying some data rescue work from a W98se PC (200MHz > Pentium II). I could have just taken the disk drive out and put it > into a USB box. But instead I put a USB host adapter into the old PC > and connected an external drive, intending to just bulk copy the > internal drive to a file on the external one, and then take it away to > be looked at on a more capable system. > > Interesting gotcha's, in order of discovery: > > The RedHat 7.1 Linux that is resident on the second internal drive of > the PC seems to have a loadable module for the USB controller, but > does not recognize anything when a formatted USB drive is connected, > either Linux ext3 hard drive or VFAT memory stick. > > So try a live CD instead. The PC hardware is too old to boot a CD
This is why I keep a floppy around with "Smart Boot Manager" on it http://btmgr.webframe.org/ > from isolinux. There is a version of DamnSmall Linux that uses > syslinux. Everything now goes well until I have to deal with a file > pointer > 2GB. Turns out that BusyBox was not compiled with large > file support. For the moment, this is OK, since the original Windows > FAT16 doesn't support > 2GB either. I think that what I have to save > is track 0, which contains the boot block and FAT, a bunch of tracks > that contain "drive C" and a bunch of tracks that contain "drive D". > > My question of the moment is "where do I go to learn more about > BusyBox, and is it easily modified for large file support." I have > learned from Google that users of BusyBox tend to customize things for > their own purposes, so I should find the source that matches DamnSmall > Linux. Busybox does wonders, but many of its constituants are low-budget versions -- ie, without all the <unnecessary> options that I have gotten addicted to in "standard" environments. ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
