John Summerfield wrote:
> Stephen Liu wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>>
>> Tks for your advice.
>>
>>
>>> My favourite rescue CD is Knoppix; it's pretty handy for both linux
>>> and Windows work, though I don't recall using it in connexion with LVM.
>>> I'm sure it would work, just not as nicely as usual.
>>
>> I tried Knoppix-5.1.1 before I came to SL.  It did not work for me
>> because the OS to be rescued is 64bit.  Knoppix-5.1.1 is 32bit.
> 
> That doesn't follow. Knoppix is't NT either, but it does a fine job of 
> rescuing/copying broken Windows.


By the way, the SL LiveCD comes also with tools for the Windows NTFS filesystem, like 
ntfs-3g, kernel-module-ntfs, ntfsprogs, gparted.





> 
> Knoppix may not run 64-bit binaries any more than it runs NT binaries, 
> but it understands the filesystems well enough, and that's a large 
> proportion of the recovery-type work I find necessary.
> 
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> 
> 
>>
>>
>>> I have seen one to two sites that seem to throttle large uploads 
>>> (outgoing from the server) after a time.
>>>
>>> Deleting the partial download is a mistake. Both wget and rsync can
>>> resume.
>>
>> Noted with tks.
>>
>>
>> B.R.
>> Stephen L.
>>
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