read extern drive in ubuntu

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 28 June 2010 14:28, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 June 2010 14:23, Maurice McCarthy <manselton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Douglas
>>
>> Come to think of it if your friend can make a cd image file (an iso
>> image) of the book and email it to you then you can mount that image
>> as an loop back device. It would save posting the disk.
>>

>
> #1 - if the friend can't read the hard disk, she can't mail one file
> from it, can she? The purpose of sending the disk is to recover data
> off it, AIUI.

Oops! Too dull I've been, see!

>
> #2 - DVDs typically run to 5GB or so. That is rather too big to email.
>

An iso file can be as small as you like. For example Damn Small Linux
is an operating system in 50 Mb.

Best Wishes
Maurice