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Tony Sumner wrote: > There must be a way of doing this. I have a Compaq Armada laptop with > a faulty hard disk. It's only a PII but I have a use for it and I have > been trying to fix it. I installed Debian etch and apart from a little > difficulty with installing some of the software it went ok but when I > try to do something the HD whirrs and nothing happens. So I reckon the > HD has a bad patch. I installed my trusty DOS 6.2 and ran scandisk and > this said the disk was fine (it was wrong). I thought I'd try e2fsck > but this requires that the disk not be mounted so I needed a separate OS > to run it. I got Timo's rescue CD and installed that. e2fsck wouldn't > run but badblocks did and found serious faults starting at about block > 2500000. Well 2GB is adequate for a small system like Damn Samll Linux > so I made myself a DSL live CD and ran that. Fine, and I was able to > run cfdisk to create a 2GB partition but (did I mention that I have just > replaced the RTC battery?) the date is Jan 1980 and the date command in > DSL won't work. Really; if I type sudo date -s "string" with any date at > all, even just "2007" I get the reply 'date invalid'. Is there a > Knoppix guru out there who can advise me what I do now? DSL is Debian > isn't it so the date command should be ok. I've come such a long way > I can't give up. > > Any ideas gratefully received -- if none there is a laptop going free > for spares :-) > > Tony Sumner > Date and time is set correctly using "date MMDDhhmmYYYY" 080423062007 for example... -- Bah Weep Graaaaagnah Wheep Ni Ni Bong -- 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