I use both vinux and grml pretty much interchangeably. I usually just use whichever I happen to lay my hands on first when i need to boot from a CD. I don't think you can go wrong either way. I'm assuming you're equally at home at the command line as in the GUI.A couple of outstanding products, IMO. BTW, grml just released a new version and based on what the developer said a few months ago, they could use some people to test the accessibility features. They were contemplating dropping accessibility because they didn't have people to test it. Poke around at www.grml.org if you want to give it a try. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mehler" <dave.mehler@gmail.com> To: "blind-sysadmins" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 6:20 PM Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] grml or vinux for laptop backup
Hello,
I've got a laptop here running xp home sp3, that it's owner in a fit of cleaning files deleted something that seriously corrupted windows. It hits the xp logo screen and freezes. It will not boot in safe mode or last known good configuration, gives the same results, I'm assuming the owner nuked something out of the windows directory or let an uninstallation program remove something that he shouldn't have done.
I have his original disk and will be reinstalling the OS, since a repair of the system didn't work either. I've got to deal with data backups though and these will be filenames with windows naming conventions. He knows he needs his profile area backed up, but I'm going to do a complete system backup. The machine has a wireless card and I've got a network attached hard disk to receive the backup data, but I'm not sure of whether I should use something like grml or vinux to do the backup. Restiration of profile files will be done from the reinstalled and working windows.
So my questions are vinux or grml? And one of them hopefully has a utility that'll read and backup ntfs in a format that a windows reinstalled box can read.
Suggestions welcome.
Thanks. Dave.
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