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William Fidell wrote: > David Bell wrote: > >> The other day I "rescued" an Intel Celerion P500+ box from the recycling centre >> as it looked in good condition, complete with a removable HDD tray. I checked it >> out and found that someone had installed SuSE v10 on it, found it incredibly slow >> and promptly junked it. >> >> I intended to use it to upgrade my IPCop box but firstly installed Damn Small >> Linux on the HDD to check the box see what DSL was like. It ran so fast that I >> then installed it on this, my old IPCop box, a P133 with 96Mb of RAM. Again I >> was very surprised haw fast the applications on DSL ran. Looks like a very >> interesting little Debian based distro and ideal as a starter distro for someone >> with very limited means who is interested in trying GNU/Linux out. There are >> plenty of applications on this 50Mb distro, including APT. The person who >> ditched the P500 (leaving his name and address in an Open Office document) did me >> a favour:-) > I too have been inpressed by DSL's speed and bundled apps. It was nice > to play around with a different window manager as well. > > However, when I used it to try and recover a Dell Laptop with WinXp > installed I had no real success for two reasons :- It failed to pick up > any network, neither card nor wireless, and it could not write to NTFS. > > It is possible or even probable that these issues were caused by either > Dell's imcompetance or mine. And I believe I could have tweaked DSL to > include NTFS, but didn't have the time. > > But, as David said, for 50mb a whole OS is pretty amazing really. > Although, when burning to CD I did feel guilty for wasting the rest of > the space available! > > Wills If you're after a CD-bootable system that will enable you to recover wrecked NTFS partitions, you could try either INSERT (http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html) or for a more "hardcore" set of utilities, there is always the Sleuth CD (http://www.linux-forensics.com). Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html