Gentlemen,
You are making this thing to hard. Make you a CD copy (iso) of Puppy
Linux. Boot off of it and you should see your internal or external
drives at the bottom of the screen. Click on the drive and read the
contents. I copy the contents of drives to external usb drives
formatted to NTFS all the time. Puppy is your friend to diagnose
hardware/software problems. Great little OS to carry on that thumb
drive in your pocket.....just like a Swiss Army knife. Hope this helps.
Jim Brewer
I'll have to try that just to further my Linux education.
I have installed half a dozen different Linux distros recently looking
for the one I like the best.
So far Mint with Mate wins if it don't crash :) It does everything
including
running Cannon movies with a rare codec out of the box.
CentOS seems to be the most stable but it does not do a lot of
things like codecs, file type support and wireless module support.
I have it reading and writing NTFS however and I am using it hardwired to
the cable modem.
Paul Lamar
Open a terminal.
Type lspci in that terminal.
Send me the result.
Include the brand and model of your laptop.
Mark LaPierre
OK Asus A54C
Paul Lamar
I have an asus laptop running Windows 7, Fedora 17, Fedora 18 Beta and Suse
12.2. I have no problem reading the contents of both of the hard drives in
the laptop from any linux distro, however Windows does not natively read the
linux ext 4 or LVM partitioning. Over the network, my Windows machine will
read the server files as well as my laptop files. Each partition shows up
as a separate disk drive.
As far as Centos, I run 6.2 on my server, but have found it not to work as
well as a desktop. For mundane tasks it works OK, but it is several
releases behind Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse, etc so that it is rock solid stable.
Fedora is the test bed for Red Hat, where Centos comes from. After a year
or so of testing with Fedora, things might make it into Centos or Red Hat.
IMHO, to install all of the bleeding edge stuff into Centos defeats the
purpose of having an enterprise level server OS.
Paul, if you like Centos, try Fedora 17. 18 is out as a Beta, but is still a
bit buggy. Also, Suse 12.2 has a laptop mode that works well too. When I
installed Ubuntu on my Asus laptop, the display driver kept crashing. I
loaded the proprietary drivers, no joy. So, I loaded Fedora and no
problems. I use that laptop for video processing, office work, cad, etc.
It is an I7 machine with 8 GB ram, a power computer by laptop standards.
My preference for the laptop is Fedora with the XFCE desktop. Clean,
efficient, easy to use. The only drawback if you call it that with Fedora
is that out of the box you cant log in as a root user- you have to do all
the superuser stuff through the terminal not through a GUI.
My 11 year old uses Mint 12, and does fine with it. When I first installed
it I had to remove Samba and reload it, it wouldn't connect with the local
network and share files. After I re-installed it, all worked fine.
Kevin Alderman
I tried 17 and it worked but as I recall it did not include the codecs.
Redhat seems to have a problem with codecs. Perhaps a legal problem.
Paul Lamar
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