Les Mikesell wrote:
Karl Larsen wrote:
> Using the Gnome CD Writer which is working well now, I made a
> Helix CD Rom and tested it. I watched as the tester ran through the
> things on the disk and it is really nice. It is a Knoppix type of
> construction much like the Fedora "Live F7" and the earlier one that
> brings up linux and then my favorite Amateur Radio software gmfsk. It
> actually works!
>
> Now I want to get the Fedora CD image and see how it compares with
> Helix. I am right now wondering how much better Helix is than the
> simple rescue mode on the F7 DVD? I think the answer is that Helix
> has some binaries that begin XP this and that and have .exe extentions.
>
> Helix works and it needs an expert to run it.
Knoppix is fairly usable as a windows rescue disk if you just want to
copy files off a working but non-bootable drive. I haven't used the
most current versions but it used to come up with read-only ntfs
support and had the option to install the captive driver from the
windows partition itself if you wanted r/w. Since the network comes
up normally, you can use ftp/scp/rsync/nfs/samba, etc. to copy files
elsewhere. Exporting via samba lets you poke around with windows
tools from another machine.
The example I read was where the Helix is on the broken computer and
it copies all the important stuff to another computer connected via a
USB port. That works if the broken computer has enough left to do the
USB port :-)
Karl