its already running an os, and there is a fastlynx program available for windows
http://www.tucows.com/preview/227506.html your solution is fine, but perhaps overly complex for the user. concerned. also we do not know that the laptop has a cdrom. On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:15:07 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 30 June 2004 14:57, Wesley Parish wrote: > > Hi. > > > > At the St Albans Community Resource Centre I've encountered a fellow > > volunteer with a problem - a Win98 laptop with Win98 problems, and he needs > > to get his data off safely. Now he's only got USB and no ethernet PC Card, > > and I was wondering if anyone's got experience with USB2Ethernet connectors > > and knows of where to get ahold of them? (His email address is the one in > > the cc: field. Feel free to contact him if you've got any info on this > > matter.) > > You could boot the machines using either a knoppix CD or BG-Rescue floppies to > use the parallel ports and a fastlink cable. > > http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/x-087-2-hardware.drivers.plip.html > http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~giannone/rescue/current/ > > I can bring the things this evening. > > -- > Sincerely etc. > Christopher Sawtell > > NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, > it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. > Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
