HELP-need Linux boot CD with NTFS read-write

[Bazarhuu]

In short, I caught the lsass virus on two comptuers. My desktop is now fine, but my laptop has been down for a day. On the laptop I did the dandy things of erasing the lsass.exe file AND the lsarv.dll or something rather right next to it in system32. After rebootig I was told a file was looking for lsass. After several reboots like this, I got the 'corrupt or missing' config/system file. I have not progressed since then.

Here is what I've done. (Note I'm on dialup and have one floppy disk-and out of country now...) Used the XP 6-disk boot method (by creating and installing one disc at a time). Worked great the first time. But I did not do much the first, and second time when I tried this method I was faced with the Administrator password prompt, which kicked me out after three tries. I then tried ERD Commander. First time it loaded great, second time it gave me a blue screen right after checking the Windows installation.

I am now downloading the Linux RIP-8.4.iso.bin from Tux, which will let me read NTSF as well as create a FAT partition to install Win98 (should this be Fat 16 or 32?). I currently have the Partition MAgic 8 rescue discs burns on a CD, which MIGHT let me create a FAT partition to install Win98SE.

Can someone recommend a bootable Linux compilation that will give me read-write access to NTSF so I can copy the files from 'repair' to 'config' and see what happens? If I cannot do this, I will then attempt to install XP over my current installation. My current Sony laptop XP discs do not allow me to do this as they are images, and I will try another XP CD (I think I have an English and Chinese version). Will backup my files before I do this. If that don't work, I might have to go the clean install route. I don't know anything more about Windows to try other solutions.

I forgot to mention, but I am looking for a SMALL Linux installation, like 100Mb or less, as I am on dialup. Knoppix will probably do it, but that is 500MB.

Thanks.


Alex

 

[drag]

Try trinity rescue CDROM disk.

It's command line only I think, but it has a good online manual. You can probably use links or lynx to go around online.

Trinity's features

-based on Mandrake 9.1 distribution
-kernel 2.4.21 generic kernel with ntfs v2.1.4a patch and at the same time ntfs v1.1.21
-20Mb ramdisk
-numerous binaries (TRK 1.1 is almost 50mb, 80% of the stuff is linked to the CDrom, it will eject on shutdown)
-network support: about every ethernet network card is supported as a module. Kudzu should detect most of them.
-laptop network card support: a bootscript can automatically try any PCMCIA NIC driver for you.
-disk support: all common IDE controllers are baked into the kernel, including some very common Adaptec SCSI chipsets. All else is modular. I don 't think I skipped a lot of SCSI controllers, most of them are in there. They are loaded immediately after detection.
-DHCP client support, TRK will test Internet connectivity as soon as an IP-address was obtained.
-automatic virus scanning with F-prot (which can get you the latest updates if you have an internet connection over your lan) (virusccan.sh)
-tools to change NT and Win2k passwords and repair NTFS partitions (selfmade winpass that uses chntpw and ntfsfix)
-ftp client support (ftp and lftp)
-samba client support
-secure shell ssh and scp
-keyboard support for all languages (defaults to US qwerty now)
-filesystem support: ext2, ext3, iso9660, joliet, jfs, Reiserfs, fat16, fat32, NTFS read write, but still dangerous under ntfs 5.
-six virtual consoles in 80x50 screen
-several lilo startup options, see usage howto for a complete list
-testdisk: recover lost partitions or data

Be carefull with that NTFS read/write stuff, though.

 

[Bazarhuu]

Looks useful and interesting. NTSF should be ok with just rename/copy comands... [hope]

Aklso working now on BartPE (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/), but it is not recognizing my XP discs as slipstreamed...Another 126 download from MS just to try this option. NTSF should be fulproof there, if I manage to compile the boot disc.

Also learned that there are boot Dos discs that have commands which can write to NTSF. Will search for these first.

Anyone know how to burn a .bin to a floppy? Found a boot diskette as a .bin file and could not figure out what to do with it. Tried to burn to a disc, and did not get anything there. I'm using Nero 6.x

Alex

 

[drag]

if it's a floppy image try using a program called rawrite.exe. It shouldn't be too hard to find in google.

In linux to write a image file to a disk use the dd comand.

to write a floppy image:

dd if=blah.img of=/dev/fd0

to make a image:

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=blah.img

You can make ISO's and other drive images that way, too.

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=blah.iso

but to burn a cd you have to use something like cdrecord.

 

[Bazarhuu]

Thanks. I did find rawrite, finally, as part of the UBD (universal boot disc) package.

Still grinding away at the rest.

A.