Subject: Re: Accessing Files from an Unbootable Machine
From: Stew Benedict (stewb@centurytel.net)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 08:43:55 MDT
If you have the "Tasty Morsels" CD, it has a rescue image you can use.
Stew Benedict
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Richard Petty wrote:
> From: Richard Petty <techie@austin.rr.com>
> Date: Mon Jun 04, 2001 07:58:33 AM US/Central
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Accessing Files from an Unbootable Machine
>
> I've had Yellow Dog running on a Lombard PowerBook for most of a year.
> Recently -- and without explanation -- the machine has become unbootable.
>
> The computer has developed various hardware problems over time and needs
> to be sent in for service anyway.
>
> I've got another machine freshly setup and ready to go, but I need to
> get the old files off my PowerBook and copied onto its replacement. The
> problem is that Yellow Dog won't boot.
>
> When I stick the installer CD into the drive, it wants to re-install.
>
> Can someone recommend a procedure for retreiving my files?
>
> TIA,
>
> Richard
>
> Austin, Texas
>
>
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