[CTS] Re: Need a OS or something.
- From: "Eric C. Vogel" <ecvogel@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:21:59 -0500
Thank you John, but I saw CDROM for booting. I only have a floppy drive. I
have a USB CDROm I do not know if it works and would take time to find the
adapter,but it is old MicroTech or something, kinda slick looking. But with
out USB support ad possible drivers....
Unless someone has Win95 disks I can borrow. I just need to login to the
network, pull over the i 386 folder for Win2k Pro and install Win2k Pro. I
have a Win 95 CD OS for this computer or some other computer we have that is
not in use. The laptop is certified for 95/NT 4. I can paypal shipping
charges, then I will ship them back. I guestimate by compressing the Win95
OS dir, 85 disks, too much to handle.
Thank you,
Eric Vogel
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Subject: [CTS] Re: Need a OS or something.
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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