If I were you, I would boot Knoppix and try to do CD burning with that. If CD burning won't work, I would still use Knoppix in conjunction with a USB zip drive. Failing that, stick a network card in it (assuming it doesn't already have one), boot Knoppix and scp your files to another Linux box (assuming you have another Linux box). :)
Good luck. --Dave On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:04, G. L. Keller wrote: > Dear UUG, > > Due to some small error in initial installation, my system requires a boot > disk to properly load all modules. Most noticeably, the sound card would > not > work. Therefore, BIOS has been set up to boot from the floppy drive. > Following the installation of a Micro Advantage [cheap] CDRW ide internal > drive, the light on the floppy drive goes on for a short while, but then > the > boot process continues as if there were no floppy. Now I have access only > to > the cdrom drive. Modem access gives error: modem is busy. The floppy link > has simply disappeared from the mnt directory (probably due to late night > user error). > > I think many of these problems would be solved by reinstalling the old > version of Redhat or even installing the newer one. That leaves the real > problem, which is I have files on this computer that I do not want to lose > but the files seem stuck on my computer. At this point, all I want is to > get > these files backed up onto some cd's. Any suggestions would be greatly > appreciated. > > -- I have been looking into programs like xcdroast. xcdroast does not > recognize my cdrw drive (which is set as a secondary master.) I would have > to change configuration files to set up SCSI emulation, but I'm not sure > which and how. > > -- I'm also wondering about the possibility of using an external usb zip > drive (which I should have gone after in the first place). However, I > don't > know at what point the system does its "plugnplay" and I think kudzu is > one > of the services which FAILS during loading. > > -- Finally, would it be possible to mount my hard drive to another linux > system and access the files to burn them to cd? > > Sincerely, > Ginger L. Keller > > > -- > Ginger L. Keller > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
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