Yes, it is the thinkpad, and I got nothing but XP in it. And yes, I have accelerated Knoppix working on the thinkpad.Gentree wrote:if I follow you it's the thinkpad that has blown out the reiserfs , so you have no gentoo anymore just an XP? Limits the options. Can you boot it off a liveCD?
From what i've just read here http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Share_Directories_via_NFS, NFS can only share directories, or at least, that's what the HOWTO covered. I'm not sure right now if I can share a device...unless the shared dir is /dev ? ....do you think it's gonna work ?Gentree wrote: man dd
it does raw byte by byte data from one device to another. In the case of a borked partition you can clone the mess with
dd if=/dev/<borked> of=/dev/<good unmounted dev>
the target must be free, unmounted and at least as large as the source. Equally src dev must not me mounted.
so the easiest is if you can plug both drives into the same system . If not you may be able to get a device interface over nfs. I'm pretty vague on that so you'll have to follow it up yourself.
If you can get the raw data across it will appear as an identically broken reiserfs to the host system.
Then you are a bit freer to hack it about since it's just a copy.
i'm going to search more about NFS or a way to share a device on the network...home network.
any ideas ?
Thanks all
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