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. > > > > >> >> >>> 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. >> >> Send instant messages to your online friends >> http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com > >