I wondered if it was possible to download ubuntu and create a bootable cd which I can then take to an old system, which isn't booting properly in windows xp and run ubuntu to again access to data on that older machine...
Any help?
I wondered if it was possible to download ubuntu and create a bootable cd which I can then take to an old system, which isn't booting properly in windows xp and run ubuntu to again access to data on that older machine...
Any help?
The short answer is "yes."
But if I left it at that, I think I'd be a jerk. You're probably wondering "how." Well, I'm glad you asked. My suggestion would be to boot from the Live CD and then have a USB drive (or external Hard Drive) handy to recover your files on to.
Download and burn a Ubuntu Live CD (c/f http://www.ubuntu.com/download/help/try-ubuntu-before-you-install and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD).
Basic instructions are: Boot your computer from the CD, mount the USB drive and your old hard disk, and just copy the files!
Check out this post on this message board for how to mount your Hard Disk from the Live CD.
Yes, and it is one of the intended functions of a live cd.
Just boot up from the live cd and when it is finished loading pick the 'try ubuntu' option. Click the partition that holds those files and let it mount. After that you can save those documents onto a dvd or cd or whatever media you want to put it on.
You may run into a bit of trouble if the disc is NTFS formatted since you need ntfs-3g to mount it:
sudo /bin/bash
mkdir /media/disk
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/disk -o force
where sda1 might be another device. You can find that with ...
fdisk -l
Here is a How to with lots of pictures from boot up to actually getting files onto a flashdrive.