On Wednesday 30 June 2004 16:51, Nick Rout wrote: > its already running an os, and there is a fastlynx program available for > windows Indeed, but windows is sick, and in my somewhat limited exp. tinkering with a sick windows machine only makes matters worse.
> http://www.tucows.com/preview/227506.html > your solution is fine, but perhaps overly complex for the user. > concerned. He's talking about using Ethernet so I have made the reasonable assumption that he is ok with networking. > also we do not know that the laptop has a cdrom. Which is why I suggested the BG-Rescue floppies. It's a super-set of Tom's Root and Root. fwiw it does the chroot trick ok. The only assumption I have made is that there are a couple of parallel ports. > 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. -- 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.
