On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:22, Ian Douglas wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know of a bootable Linux CD which allows both read and write NTFS file system access. I would prefer the distro to boot to the command line as it will be used on old (100MHz and below) PCs with ancient graphics cards. I just need access to the ls, cp, rm, mv type commands... nothing complicated.
Seasons Greetings! Ian.
I don't access ntfs file systems very much so I may be wrong here, but I believe knoppix will do what you want if you feed it "knoppix 2" when prompted at boot.
The most recent knoppix I have boots to runlevel 2 when you do this, which gives pretty much everything without the GUI and makes for an excellent rescue disk.
(Not forgetting that you have to mount -o rw,remount the volume if you want it rw in Knoppix:) )
Merry stuff,
Ten
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