live CD

[Basil Chupin]

On 28/03/13 05:08, Thufir Hawat wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 01:29:24 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>
>> Which leads to the second question: what exactly is it that you want to
>> do with a Live CD (of any description) - to backup his data you say?
>>
>> But how are you going to do this? And onto what are you going to backup
>> his "data" (what exactly is his "data")?
>
> What I was thinking was to boot to the live cd/thumb drive and either
> write the data (his photos, etc) to DVD.
>
> It might be necessary to connect to the network and transfer files to
> another computer.

Which is why I am suggesting that you may be better off with the 
SysemRescueCD which has all the tools onboard to do what you want.

You will find the SRCD here:

http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage

Worth its weight in platinum.

BC

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