cbagger01
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Posted: Jan. 03 2005,17:59 |
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DSL supports read-only access to an NTFS hard drive partition.
It should be fairly straightforward to boot up DSL with a boot floppy and a CD-R livecd disk in your CDROM drive. You will need a program like rawrite32.exe in order to create the boot floppy disk and you will need a program like Nero to burn the ISO to a CD-R disk.
Once booted, it should be pretty easy to get at the hard drive. You can either mount the drive using the mount.app tool in the lower right corner of the desktop by scrolling to "hda1" or "hda2" or whatever name is your NTFS partition and then pressing the button. The green light should appear and then you will be mounted.
Also you can open up the Emelfm file manager and navigate to the /mnt directory. Then Right-Click on the appropriate subdirectory (for example hda2) and then choose "Mount" from the context menu and your files will appear.
Most USB CD-RW drives are supported by DSL if they follow the USB Mass Storage Device standard. If they drive can be connected to a Windows 2000 or Windows XP or Mac computer without the need to install special drivers then it is probably a "Mass Storage Compliant" device and will be automatically supported in linux.
Check your model here at this website to learn more about USB support:
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/
Now to burn CD-R disks, you can use the built-in "bashburn" program, or you can use the gcombust.dsl or the k3b.dsl extensions in the mydsl repository.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub....ust.dsl
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub....k3b.dsl
K3B is the nicest but is a huge download file. The gcombust.dsl extension is very small and should fit on a floppy disk if needed. I find gcombust to be easier to use than the bashburn software but is still not a once-click setup.
Good Luck.
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