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Super King
June 2nd, 2006, 06:54 PM
Here's the situation:

I have an old hard drive with OpenLinux (http://www.theosfiles.com/os_linux/ospg_Linux_Caldera.htm) on it. It was used in a machine at a hotel, with some sort of expensive hotel-type software on it. I need to somehow get this software off the drive and copy it to another one. As you can see from the above link this Linux distro is oooold :cool: It says it supports Ext2 and read/write FAT file systems, so I'm gonna assume this drive is Ext2 formatted to begin with. My basic plan to get the data pff the drive is to:

-Shove the OpenLinux hard drive as well as a blank FAT-formatted drive into my main machine which runs WinXP and Dapper.

-Mount the two drives in Ubuntu (they'll show up right? I'm pretty sure Ext2 and FAT are supported in Ubuntu)

-Copy from the Ext2 drive to the FAT drive.


Is there anything I'm overlooking here? Any suggestions/thoughts?

Virogenesis
June 2nd, 2006, 06:57 PM
you could also use windows by using http://www.fs-driver.org/ it allows read/write access to ext2 drives.

aysiu
June 2nd, 2006, 06:59 PM
Sounds good to me.

You'd be better off with a Knoppix live CD, though, as it will automatically mount partitions of both types.