read extern drive in ubuntu

[Douglas Pollard]

Sorry guys I guess I was not very clear.  She will send me her hard 
drive and I intend to put it in my empty external drive case and read it 
with Ubuntu and copy it.   I can send them by email as files or write to 
dvd and mail to her.  This info is on a pretty small hard drive I think 
as it is old.  Everyone is telling her that she can only get the files 
off and read them with a Mac computer.  I don't know what kind of file 
system Mac uses or if the advice she has been given is correct.  It's my 
understanding that you can put Ubuntu on a Mac and move the personal 
files to Ubuntu.  I just want to be sure I can work with the Mac files 
or convert them to something Ubuntu can work with.        Doug


On 06/28/2010 10:06 AM, Maurice McCarthy wrote:
> 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
>
>