How do you recover Window files via Knoppix?

**go2** · 03-25-2004, 09:25 PM

Thanks for the suggestions.

I tried apt-get install zip but got
W: Not using locking for read onlyu lock file /var/libdpkg/lock
E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Also, if I use zip what would the commands be? I'm familiar with winzip.

Sorry for the followup followup problems. Appreciate the assistance.

**garyng** · 03-25-2004, 09:32 PM

I haven't used KNOPPIX for a long while and don't know if there is zip. You can achieve the same with tar and gzip.

just do a tar -zcvf /mnt/hda1/backup.tar.gz "your directory"

but you have to get into KNOPPIX to unpack it or get a copy of some third party utility under windows to read that.

**go2** · 03-25-2004, 09:48 PM

Thank you.

I use tar -zcvf /mnt/hda1/backup.tar.gz /mnt/hda1/...
got my backup.tar.gz in root directory.

Just wanted to know how I would "un" tar after I get the system booting again.

**garyng** · 03-25-2004, 09:51 PM

tar -zxvf /dev/hda1/backup.tar.gz

**go2** · 03-25-2004, 09:59 PM

All Smiles

Thank you Mr. Knoppix.

Now to see how Win2k installs.

Best,
go2

**mcaycedo** · 03-26-2004, 01:59 AM

Well, I haven't seen here the GUI way to do the copy stuff. Easy money. We will have many scenarios.

1. I want to copy some files from one disk (c

to another disk (d

in the same machine.

In the desktop must appears some icons, named hda1 (must be C

, hda2 or hdb1 (must b d

and so on. So, you want to copy some files from c: to d:. Your target drive must be formated with fat or fat32. The format used until win 98. The acceso to Ntfs format is in development (format used by win 2000 and newer). If you have an USB drive it must appear like "SDA1" or something like that. But, with USB drives there are some drives wich Knoppix is unable to detect.

So, you must do right click in the destination drive (hda2 or hdb1). There is one option to change mode from Read to write.

Then, open the file manager (Konqueror) with left click. Open one window for the source files an another for the target directory. And then, simply drag and drop

2. Copy from you local drives to some shared folder in another machine in your lan.

You must know the name or ip from the other machine. Open one file manager and type "smb://192.168.0.10", where the ip belongs to the destination machine or "smb://nombre" with the name from the other machine. If is some win 2000 machine, it will ask you for the login and the password. You must type one login and pass valid in the destination machine. If everything works fine, there must appears one list with all the shared resources of the target machine. Select one shared folder with read/write permissions and repeat the last step from the previous scenario.

3. Publish or share you local drives in the lan, so you can copy you files from another machine.

In the knoppix menu, option Services" and finally "Samba Services". Knoppix will ask you for a pass, only click "ok" twice and everithing will be fine. Then, knoppix will ask you if you want to publish all your local hard drives to read/write access. With this, you will be publishing all the disks from your machine.

The, in another machine in the same lan, open one file explorer and in the address bar, type "\\knoppix" and then enter. It will apear one window asking for a login and a pass, in the login type "knoppix" and enter. It will open one window with all the shared drives from your knoppix machine. And the, drag and drop will work fine