Need a Live CD that can access NTFS hard drives

[Anonymous]

Hi Mark,

Was the SimplyMEPIS you tried the Ubuntu Dapper based alpha I posted the
link to? Since it's derived from Ubuntu, and you said that Ubuntu had at
least booted, I figured it would work. Then again, I don't claim to know
much.

Yeah. I went to the link and downloaded:
SimplyMEPIS_3.4-3.iso 09-Feb-2006 22:37 698M

I've not seen where you've described your hardware. Would you mind? I'm
just curious what it is that the other distros have such difficulty
with.

Sure! Let me fire up WinAudit and get the data for you:


BIOS Version Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG
Number Processors 1
Processor Description AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+, 1529MHz
Total Memory (RAM) 639MB

Display 1024 x 768 pixels, true colour
Device Type Display adapters
Description PowerVR KYRO II 32MB/64MB
Manufacturer ST Microelectronics
Location PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0
Driver Provider Imagination Technologies
Driver Version 1.4.14.28
Driver Date 12-14-2001

Hard Drive Western Digital
Driver Version 5.0.2183.1
Driver Date 11-14-1999
Status Code 0


Is that enough?

 

[Mark Warner]

Yeah. I went to the link and downloaded:
SimplyMEPIS_3.4-3.iso 09-Feb-2006 22:37 698M

Actually, that's not the Ubuntu Dapper based alpha; the alpha has
"alpha" in the file name. Not a big deal, but since you said the Ubuntu
live CD did at least boot, I thought the Ubuntu based alpha would be a
good candidate to try. SimplyMEPIS is renowned for its automounting and
autoconfiguring, so I thought it might give you what you were looking
for.

Sure! Let me fire up WinAudit and get the data for you:


BIOS Version Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG Phoenix-Award BIOS v6.00PG
Number Processors 1
Processor Description AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+, 1529MHz
Total Memory (RAM) 639MB

Display 1024 x 768 pixels, true colour
Device Type Display adapters
Description PowerVR KYRO II 32MB/64MB
Manufacturer ST Microelectronics
Location PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0
Driver Provider Imagination Technologies
Driver Version 1.4.14.28
Driver Date 12-14-2001

Hard Drive Western Digital
Driver Version 5.0.2183.1
Driver Date 11-14-1999
Status Code 0

Hell, I dunno. I still don't claim to know much. I thought if you had
something odd or exotic, that might have a bearing on it. Your
description of all the various distros failing made me think graphics at
the time. Who knows. <shrug>

 

[Anonymous]

Mark,

Hell, I dunno. I still don't claim to know much. I thought if you had
something odd or exotic, that might have a bearing on it. Your
description of all the various distros failing made me think graphics at
the time. Who knows. <shrug>

THAT was my suspicion too. I've never seen a graphics card named Pyro
before and I've always suspected that it was the problem. I have no
doubt that something in my machine---and not the Linux distros---have
always been the problem. I just can't isolate exactly WHAT is causing
Linux not to load.

It's okay though---Windows runs just fine and now I have Linspire and
Ultimate Boot CD if Windows ever craps out on me!

 

[Jondy Lister]

Hi Guys,

My computer's hard drive is formatted in NTFS. Of all of the Linux distros
that I've tried, Ubuntu is the only Live CD that has ever been able to
boot my computer.

But Ubuntu won't mount, read or access my NTFS hard drive.

I want a Live CD that can boot my machine, provide some kind of an
operating system, and allow me to access the NTFS hard drive.

-*- The OS used by the Live CD doesn't matter. It can be Linux, Windows,
BeOS...anything as long as it can mount, read and access an NTFS hard
drive.
-*- I already have Ultimate Boot CD and I like it. I'm looking for
something other than UBCD now.

Any ideas?

Knoppix.

 

[Morten Skarstad]

Anonymous skrev:

THAT was my suspicion too. I've never seen a graphics card named Pyro

Pyro? Didn't your diag-program say Kyro? I believe Kyro was the name of
some chip that was surrounded by a lot of hype when it hit the market,
but it never reached much of a market share. The main attraction was
decent gaming performance achieved through intelligent design rather
than brute force, and a low price tag.

It may be that the chip is not supported in most distros. But even if
there is no direct support for it, X should work in VESA mode.

http://ftp.x.org/pub/X11R7.0/doc/html/manindex4.html has a list of
drivers included in the current version of X.org. I have no personal
experience with Kyro based cards, but the list does not mention Kyro at
all. That could indicate that Kyro based cards are not supported, and
rather than falling back to VESA modes (which should work on any card)
most distros (with Linspire as a notable exception) just fail whenever
trying to load the graphical interface.

 

[boywonder]

http://www.knoppix.org/ LiveCD only. Surprised you haven't seen this one.
It reads my NTFS and FAT32 partitions, I still haven't found a way to write
to them, saw that its not a good idea somewhere on the net. To save, I have
used a floppy.

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