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Old February 7th, 2003, 03:18 AM
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anyone know any linux? Im trying to figure out how to access my C drive after I boot from this CD.
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Old February 7th, 2003, 04:01 AM
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Default Re: just tried this out

Basicly:

/dev/hda for the first disk
/dev/hdb for the second
/dev/hdc for the third
/dev/hdd for the fourth

There's a lot more to it than this...such as you may have to mount the drive...

Also, depending on the distro, you may not be able to "see" a windows drive.

Normally linux CD distros are just to try out the linux system itself, or to tie in some way with a more secure system.
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Old February 7th, 2003, 05:30 AM
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Instar, no, I don't think MS would let you run any of their OS without installing it first.
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Old February 7th, 2003, 07:27 AM
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according to Dynebolic, I should be able to read FAT16, 32, and NFTS
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There is a setting in the CMOS, before the OS is loaded, that tells the computer what drive(s) to check for the OS, and it can generally be changed. If you watch the boot up process, early on there is generally a brief line that says something like "press F10 to enter setup" or some such - I don't recall exactly. Could be delete. Anyway, pressing that button in the (very) short time the machine is responsive to that function will bring up a menu from which you should be able to tell the computer which drives to check on boot up. Hope this helps....
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Well, I had to do that in order to get the Dynebolic CD to boot up in the first place, thanks
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Default Re: just tried this out

you need to MOUNT the drives each time you run Linux (usually by a bat file/script during the boot process). You will need to do that each time since you are booting from a CD and the file you would need would be loaded on the CD to read from as it boot. Linux takes me back to the DOS days, and I doubt that your CD would have updated drivers for your vid card.

I would suggest getting a removable HD bay and just load it on a spare drive.

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