I finally found a Linux distro!

[MyndFyre]

Fedora Core 4.  :)  Works nearly out of the box on my laptop; just need to make one small modification to some configuration file so that sounds don't crash it, install NDISWrapper, and then update the yum configuration.

So then....  Right now, I'm making an image of my laptop hard drive.  I plan on reinstalling everything fresh, but I wanted to have a backup.  I'm using dd.

The question is -- well, maybe not the question, but the problem is -- I need to build a Linux live CD with dd,  NDISWrapper, and my laptop's NDIS driver.  I know my way around the command line fairly well, but I don't think I know how to make Windows and Linux talk (so that Linux can read my Windows file share).  I also don't know how to customize a live CD.  :P

Thoughts?

[Newby]

Why are you making a Linux Live CD? Why not just use something like Knoppix? :p

FC4 is evil. Slackware / FreeBSD for the win.

[MyndFyre]

Why are you making a Linux Live CD? Why not just use something like Knoppix? :p

FC4 is evil. Slackware / FreeBSD for the win.

I need a Live CD so that in case of one of a hundred problems comes up (like I can't activate Windows or something again) I can dd -restore my current hard drive image.  I don't care what distro the live CD is....  It just needs to run dd, NDISwrapper, iwconfig, dhcpcd, and whatever the command is to map a network drive.

I mean, I guess if worst comes to worst, I can just physically copy dd to the CD and plug it into my network.  That would be a suboptimal solution, though.

[iago]

To map Windows drives, use "Samba".  You can find everything you need with g00gle. 

There are also graphical interfaces for it, if you're into that.  I couldn't name them, but I'm sure you can find it. 

[MyndFyre]

To map Windows drives, use "Samba".  You can find everything you need with g00gle. 

There are also graphical interfaces for it, if you're into that.  I couldn't name them, but I'm sure you can find it. 

To dd I don't need a GUI.  Command line will do (dd is a command line tool after all.  It's sad but I have its syntax memorized....

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dd if=\\?\Device\Harddisk0\DR0 of=z:\notebookbackup.img bs=1M --progress).

The one thing I haven't figured out in FC4 is how to make my screen resolution 1440x900.  I can make it 1280x800, but boo to that.

[Newby]

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf (?) to allow that crazy resolution.

[iago]

Are you trying to copy off a local windows drive, or a remote one?

whatever the command is to map a network drive

That's what I was answering - Samba. 

[MyndFyre]

Are you trying to copy off a local windows drive, or a remote one?

whatever the command is to map a network drive

That's what I was answering - Samba. 

If I need to restore my hard drive, I'll be copying from one:

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dd if=/mnt/windows-remote-g/notebookbackup.img of=/dev/hda bs=1M --progress


Newby: I've tried that.  It just hates me.  *Shrug*

[MyndFyre]

Hello from Fedora Core 4.  ;-)

[Newby]

If you didn't use lynx, you're so outta teh co0l club.

[dx]

FreeBSD

[Newby]

You're such a BSD zealot, dx. :P

(22:56:07) darkxir: HC Ladder?
(22:56:12) James: Linux :(
(22:56:12) darkxir: Or are you too scared
(22:56:17) darkxir: OMFG.
(22:56:30) darkxir: When you're on linux, you might as well not have the internet.
(22:56:34) darkxir: You can't do anything fun

[dx]

Hah, I would *never boot a nix distro from my machine, for said reason.
Meet my friend, PuTTy.

[GameSnake]

I also use Linux.

[trust]

Hah, I would *never boot a nix distro from my machine, for said reason.
Meet my friend, PuTTy.

You used Redhat, Linux[e1].