[CTS] Re: Need a OS or something.
- From: John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:20:44 -0500
On Thursday 10 February 2005 08:56 am, Eric C. Vogel wrote:
> I have never really used Linux. Could you please give me a step-by-step?
Well, I've never used Knoppix to do this, so this is a guess, but:
1) Boot the machine and watch the messages scroll by. You should see stuff
about the NIC being detected and configured via DHCP. Keep in mind that
you're booting from a CDROM, not a hard drive, so expect the boot to be
lengthy -- probably 5-8 minutes.
2) Once the GUI's up, which will happen automatically, you should have an icon
on the desktop for the hard drive. Open that up and see if you can read the
data you're looking for. A comment on this article:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5118 says it can read NTFS*, so this
shouldn't be a problem.
3) Open up another file browser window and type "smb://SERVERNAME/sharename"
into the URL bar. (Note that those are slashes, not back-slashes.) That'll
get you into your file server.
4) Drag 'n drop the files you need and you're on your way.
*NTFS is generally a pretty terrible filesystem compared to what's available
for Linux (ext2, ext3, reiser, jfs, xfs, hfs and so on), so no one's really
paid much attention to developing strong Linux support for it. Read access
is solid but I don't think write access is quite there yet. Then again, you
don't need it for this.
John
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