[GRLUG] live cd on vista?

[Greg Folkert]

On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 10:55 -0500, Topher wrote:
> >> I've used a live cd to salvage data from a currupted XP drive many 
> >> times, but now that Vista is more popular my friends are asking me to 
> >> save THOSE too.
> 
> For the record, Ubuntu Feisty couldn't start X, and Knoppix 4 couldn't 
> find the hard drive.  Knoppix 5.1 did everything perfectly.
> 
> Mostly unrelated, I've typically used live cds to scrape data off of old 
> dead machines, which are typically pretty slow.  Knoppix was REALLY snappy 
> on a high end 64bit proc with 2G of ram.

You should install it on a similar machine. You'd be surprised.

And even though its got tons of "custom stuff", it is maintainable. Just
not in the "Pointy, Clicky, Ubuntu way" but its a good release no matter
what.
-- 
greg at gregfolkert.net
PGP key 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05
Fingerprint: E1D3 E3D7 5850 957E FED0  2B3A ED66 6971 B524 687C
Alternate Fingerprint: 09F9 1102 9D74  E35B D841 56C5 6356 88C0
Alternate Fingerprint: 455F E104 22CA  29C4 933F 9505 2B79 2AB2
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://shinobu.grlug.org/pipermail/grlug/attachments/20080217/7b8878bf/attachment.pgp