On Monday 02 June 2003 21:46, Cody Harris wrote: > At 03:37 PM 6/2/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >On Monday 02 June 2003 02:53 pm, Cody Harris graced me with: > > > Ok, scenario: > > > I have a laptop with Windoze 95 on it. It's partition is "Pri DOS". > > > I cannot read this from a boot disk and can not log into Windoze > > > (PC/DACS disabled my login after windoze fudged up after installing > > > a PC CARD (network)). I tried removing the hard drive and > > > installing it on my computer, but the cable is a different size. > > > It's 48 MB with a P1. My question is: how do i get onto the drive, > > > send my files over the network, and format without installing a > > > full version of Linux. > > > > > > Remember: I don't want anything to be written to the drive, so i > > > need a version that can either run across a network or from a disk. > > > > > > Any other suggestions welcome! > > > >Hey, Cody, > > > >I'm not sure that I am reading your post correctly, so please help me > >out and forgive if I am way off.... > > > >Are you trying to run Linux without installing to your hard drive, or > >to recover data off your hard drive, or what? I'm confused with your > >purpose, that's all. :-) > > Recover data > > >Since I am not sure what you want to do, you could take this for what > >it's worth..... > > > >Knoppix is designed to run off the CD-ROM drive. If this portable > >beastie is blessed with a CD-ROM drive, you could run that and never > >really have to use your hard drive for it. There are some > >caveats...and they would be big ones for you: > > > >Knoppix, at least a modern copy, is going to need lots of RAM. That's > >where all your important directories and files that need to loaded > >are put (like /home, for instance). It essentially divides up and > >uses your RAM memory as if it was your hard drive. Once you turn of > >your computer, all is lost (though you could opt to save configs to > >the hard drive so that you wouldn't have to re-config each time you > >boot-up...your choice, there.) If I read your post correctly, your > >laptop only has 48 MB of RAM. Did I? That's not enough for this. If I > >understood that your P1 refers to a Pentium Classic, a P233 MHz is > >going to be the bottom end and still be able to run KDE or Gnome. At > >least this is what I experienced on a test PC running a P233 with 128 > >MB RAM, using Knoppix 3.2. > > Yes, it has CD. It's an old laptop, so Knoppix wouldn't work. > > >There are some projects out there that provide Linux on a floppy disk, > >and some minimal O/S installs that might work, but the floppy one is > >the only one that I seem to recall would allow you to run without > >using the hard drive. This information is the better part of a year > >old, so I can't vouch for your ability to find any of these > >resources. Try doing a search using some key words that imply running > >on a floppy or from a CD. > > But will they run my network card? > > >I'll take a look at my old bookmarks and see if I can find this stuff > >for you. I save everything, but then I can't seem to find where I put > >things afterward....I had that workstation here moments > >ago...hmmmm... > > Ok, thanks. > > >HTH, > > > >T
Frankly you have a few options here, depending on what you're out out to retain. If you just want yer Windoze95 back up and running and know where to look and edit: Get a "tomsrtb" boot floppy off the net (http://www.toms.net/rb/) and boot from that. Don't use knoppix or anything with a gui if you've only got 32M ram! If this is too much: find a friend or go to http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/w9xbtflp.htm for a winders boot floppy and use that. And/or: Shove winders and install linux:o) Good luck, HarM
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