Why? It works fine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 9:19 PM Subject: Re: [TriLUG] NT 4.0 backup, knoppix, other ideas?
> will g4l let you look inside an image and extract files? i'm not even > gonna suggest ghosting an image to a server using a network boot > floppy... > > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 21:12, Joshua Bedick wrote: > > I think the others were correct in suggesting Knoppix, but in case > > that > > doesn't work a 1 GB hard drive should do the trick. Just put NT or > > something on it. Or G4L (?Ghost for Linux?). > > > > Joshua > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:24 PM > > Subject: [TriLUG] NT 4.0 backup, knoppix, other ideas? > > > > > > > A good friend has a NT 4.0 machine in bad shape. It won't load > > drivers > > and constantly complains about "the security subsystem" not starting. > > I've > > tried to load LAN drivers for a 3Com PCMCIA card but it doesn't work - > > neither does loading drivers for a 802.11b card from Lucent. > > Reloading the > > OS from an old NT 4.0 CD doesn't work either (more blah blah about the > > "security subsystem"). > > > > > > The problem here is he has about 650 megs of data from his MBA > > program he > > would like to have saved. Without being able to load any drivers for > > network cards I'm outta luck with a network backup. > > > > > > Is there any way to boot Linux from a CD with network drivers and > > get to > > the data on a NT partition? I think the partition is NTFS, but I'm > > not > > sure. This is the only way I can think to get the data from this > > machine > > without being able to load drivers and without a CD-RW. > > > > > > Has anyone tried booting a Linux distro and getting to NT data? Is > > this > > even possible? Does anyone have any other ideas? > > > > > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
