[TriLUG] NT 4.0 backup, knoppix, other ideas?

[Roy Vestal]

Why? It works fine.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Ray" <jim at neuse.net>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
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: <gregbrown at mindspring.com>
> > To: <trilug at trilug.org>
> > 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
> 
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