AussieJohn Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Thanks for followup Arctic. It is nice know that I am not alone in my thoughts. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 With all due respect, you are both wrong :P There's nothing virtual in a Live CD. A live CD is a real OS, that starts from CD instead of starting from HD. With the Virtual PC approach, you have, say, $HOME/tmp/bochs.hda.img "plugged" into Bochs' first IDE drive, by the means of the configuration file, and $HOME/tmp/bochs.hdd.img "plugged" into Bochs' second IDE drive (same way). bochs.hda.img would for example be a ready to use Linux image, or even a Live CD ISO file ;), and bochs.hdd.img would be your faulty drive's image. Why a virtual PC? Because this virtual PC is a program in a window on your desktop. If the virtual PC "crashes"/freezes, then it just means that the window will close, or that you'll have to xkill it. Restart it (easier than a reboot) and go a little further each time. Why not a "real PC" (wether it is your usual OS or a live CD)? Because whatever method you choose, you have to mount also the drive where data is saved. In case of a crash because of the faulty drive, you have to perform a real NOT clean reboot, and you might loose data in the process. I know because it happened to me. Thankfully I had a backup. Of course, whatever method you choose, it is better to mount the faulty drive read-only. That said, the simplest method probably is to use a live CD, and save the data over the network with (s)ftp so that no other drive is mounted. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 sorry, i don't see any BIG difference in both approaches apart from having to mount the drive 100% with a live cd while the virtual box will not really do a fixed mount. yes, the virtual approch is maybe safer but the way it works is very similar to mounting and copying data with a live cd imho. bah... g33k talk again :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 As Arctic says..............................................More geek talk. One of the very things that deters newcomers to Linux. So when you want to save data on a failing Hard Drive use a Live-CD. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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