OK! After two hours figuring out how to safely create the Linux LiveCD and run it safely, I did it and I can boot the Acer with failed WXP hive.
But I cannot do anything because I do not know how to access a command prompt or move around once I am there. (Equiv to Run/CMD.EXE in WXP. And does Linux use XCOPY or some other command. And from the command prompt how does one get help for a command comparable e.g. to 'xcopy /?' ?) Perhaps some kind soul can give me the very basic rudiments to do the above, and a link to an FAQ or even online manual which will upon reading will make me fluent in Linux (esp command prompt, which is the way I usually work in WXP because I started out on this in the DOS days). Also I cannot find a way from Linux to search for wireless APs although when Linux booted it said wireless is available. (I have a Cisco 350 card installed that was running under WXP so apparently Linux sees it.) Tks again for all help and the introduction to the world of Linux Jeffrey Race On Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:36:36 -0500, Chris Schumann wrote: >You should boot with a LiveCD such as Ubuntu Linux. That will mount the >internal drive and a USB drive. You should be able to copy files that way. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
