On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 10:03:42AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:07:46 -0700 > "Deboo ^" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have a couple of CDs which were written on a Debian Sarge machine a > > few months or an year ago. > > > > I wish to access them and copy the reqd. data on another CDs but am > > unable to do so. Is it possible somehow to access the ext2 partition > > CDs on Windows? > > > > I tried using some tools that read ext2 partitions in windows but they > > can't recognize the CDs since windows doesn't recognize them. > > > > I'm able to see the CDs fine when booting using the debian install cd > > or dsl linux. But the problem is the PC isn't mine where I am so I > > can't copy these to the hard disk as the hdd partitions are NTFS. > > > > Please give a solution someone. > > > > Regards, > > Deboo > > I'm not sure I understand the situation; linux writes CDs using the > iso9660 filesystem, not ext2, so any OS should be able to read them. > Please explain the problem more clearly.
Once can create an ext2 fs in a file (mounted via loop) then write that file raw to a CD. Never done it but I've seen it. Its a bit of security by obscurity; only a linux box can read it. Personally, if I'm going to do that, I just dump a tar.gz to CD. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
