[lug] OT but desperate (win 98 won't boot)

[Peter Hutnick]

Laurent LeThuaut said:

> When your frustration level gets to the point that you're ready to give
> up on re-installing 98 and still want to access your precious data, try
> this alternate solution:
>
> 1- Grab a bootable Linux CD or burn an iso Gentoo stage 1
> (gentoo.org)
> 2- Boot from CD
> 3- insmod your eth0 module (follow the gentoo stage 1 instructions) 4-
> mount FAT /dev/hda1 (assuming what you want to save is on 1st
> IDE)
> 5- ftp important files to a reliable machine -- a Linux server ;)

In case anyone hasn't heard, a great way for those of us who are more
"Free Software" than "Open Source" to get a credit card sized bootable
GNU/Linux CD is to become an associate member of the Free Software
Foundation.  The _membership_card_ is a bootable GNU/Linux CD!  How cool
is that?

See http://members.fsf.org

-Peter