[pchelpers] Re: Knoppix

Sounds like you do pretty well with it. When the time comes to set it up 
as a web server, you may be very handy to know.

Jeremy Evans wrote:

>I can't say I'm exactly a Linux expert (slooowly getting there), but I have
>tried Knoppix out & found it very well thought out. The latest versions of
>Linux are pretty much as user-friendly as Windows, but are definitely VERY
>different once you start to scratch the surface.
>
>One time I found it invaluable was to recover some lost digital photos on a
>friend's Win98 PC that he'd got very ticked off with one day (due to the
>usual Windows-type mystery problems that crop up once in a while) &
>reinstalled Windows using his (Gateway) recovery CD. Consequently he
>(unexpectedly - for him)lost a chunk of data on his drive he hadn't got
>around to saving to CD.
>
>Of course the photos were important & I advised him not to use the PC (to
>avoid overwriting his photos as the PC started using up HDD space) until I'd
>had a look.
>
>I booted the PC off the Knoppix CD & was able to track down his images by
>using a command-line Perl script I found (& modified a bit) off the net.
>Linux has a nice capability of treating drives as a single, large file if
>you want to, so after an hour or so of trolling through the big "file",
>voila, my mate had his irreplaceable piccies back.
>
>Try that with Windows!
>
>Jeremy
>  
>

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