Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Saturday 13 January 2007 18:30, Robert Fisher wrote:
On Saturday 13 January 2007 6:21 pm, Chris Downie wrote:
Can I unmount a live cd so I can use the DVD burner? Else I'm going
to have to install another HDD. At this stage I can still mount and
read /de
> Unfortunately I have about five gigs of data to move. I will however file
> your tip for future reference.
Let's be pragmatic here. Dust the old cdrom drive from the bottom drawer
off again and hook it into the box temporarily. You don't even have to
screw it down, just make sure it doesn't to
The only DVD drive I have is the one the LiveCD in running on. I'll have a
go on the machines at work tomorrow.
Cheers,
Chris
Volker Kuhlmann writes:
Actually there are more options with DVD. Find a minimal system and
format a DVD+RW or a DVDRAM with a UDF filesystem. In a crunch, use
vfat
So I have found out :(
Volker Kuhlmann writes:
And here is precisely where all the live CDs fall flat - Knoppix isn't
so good any more all of a sudden... ;) They do have their use of course,
but not here. Use the network if you can (as suggested). The SUSE rescue
system (on any bootable/install
Unfortunately I have about five gigs of data to move. I will however file
your tip for future reference.
Cheers,
Chris
Christopher Sawtell writes:
If it hasn't got a network card and the amount of precious data is
relatively small - megs, rather than gigs - it is quite possible to use
the
Thanks for the offer Robert. Yes, this box has a network card so I will go
down that track first.
Cheers,
Chris
Murphy's Law: For six years I lived five minutes from you and only recently
moved to the other side of town. :-o
Robert Fisher writes:
Has the box got a network card in it?
I
> Can I unmount a live cd so I can use the DVD burner?
Actually there are more options with DVD. Find a minimal system and
format a DVD+RW or a DVDRAM with a UDF filesystem. In a crunch, use
vfat. Find a minimal bootable system which loads itself into RAM and
gives up use of the DVD driver after b
> Can I unmount a live cd so I can use the DVD burner? Else I'm going to have
> to install another HDD. At this stage I can still mount and read /dev/hda4
> which has my /home.
And here is precisely where all the live CDs fall flat - Knoppix isn't
so good any more all of a sudden... ;) They do h
On Saturday 13 January 2007 18:30, Robert Fisher wrote:
> On Saturday 13 January 2007 6:21 pm, Chris Downie wrote:
> > Can I unmount a live cd so I can use the DVD burner? Else I'm going
> > to have to install another HDD. At this stage I can still mount and
> > read /dev/hda4 which has my /home.
>
On Saturday 13 January 2007 6:21 pm, Chris Downie wrote:
> Can I unmount a live cd so I can use the DVD burner? Else I'm going to have
> to install another HDD. At this stage I can still mount and read /dev/hda4
> which has my /home.
Has the box got a network card in it?
I often use a Linux Live C
Can I unmount a live cd so I can use the DVD burner? Else I'm going to have
to install another HDD. At this stage I can still mount and read /dev/hda4
which has my /home.
Cheers,
Chris
Volker Kuhlmann writes:
***snipped***
But before doing anything much at all, try and retrieve your imp
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 79656 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 204 102784+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2
> I had occasion to reboot and got GRUB Error 17. I ran my Mepis LiveCD and
dmesg output shows a few filesystems the system was expecting to find.
Assuming grub was correctly installed and functional, and that nothing
and nobody tinkered with the bootloader, /etc/fstab, or the disk
partitioning,
Can you try fdisk -l /dev/hda, and cat /etc/fstab, and post the output??
Cheers,
Steve
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:13:23 +1300
Chris Downie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had occasion to reboot and got GRUB Error 17. I ran my Mepis LiveCD and
> dmesg reported the following (I have deleted
Hi,
I had occasion to reboot and got GRUB Error 17. I ran my Mepis LiveCD and
dmesg reported the following (I have deleted every line that I understood
and didn't appear (to me!) to be relevant):
[17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.15-26-386 (gcc version 4.0.3 (Ubuntu
4.0.3-1ubuntu5)) #1 PRE
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