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Hey. I screwed up my Ubuntu 8.04 that came with my Dell Mini by trying to install a package that was bigger than my hard drive, thus accidentally uninstalling the entire GUI in the process.
... Yeah, I'm a moron sometimes.
As a result, I now have access only to Ubuntu 8.04's terminal. As such, I've installed a bootable instance of Ubuntu 11.04 on a 16GB USB drive. I've created a roughly 2.68GB casper-rw partition. Ubuntu 11.04 worked for awhile but now boots but refuses to load, and when I look at the log thing that appears when you press arrowkeys at the loading screen, I see that when it's loading, it encounters a multitude of errors such as being unable to unmount devices because they're busy and trying to access closed loops, and then stops and doesn't do anything at all. I figured that I must have broken it somehow and that I'd get my files off, format the drive, install Ubuntu on the drive again, and put my files back on with another USB drive I have that's large enough to store my files but not large enough to store another installation of Ubuntu, but when I put my flash drive that has the broken Ubuntu installed on it into my larger and more powerful laptop that has Windows Vista installed, Windows Vista only sees the casper-rw partition and identifies everything in the bootable partition as "free space." I wonder if it does this with multiboot hard drives as well. What's that old joke about Windows assuming it's the only operating system on the computer again...?
I could theoretically use my broken installation of Ubuntu 8.04 to move my files, but to do that, I'd have to mount the two USB drives I'd be working with, and I can't figure out how to mount devices; none of the tutorials I've read seem to work for me. I know Ubuntu 8.04 itself must do it somehow; from what I've heard, mounting devices is a crucial part of the way it loads.
Anyway, is there any way to get Windows Vista to recognize both partitions of the USB drive, or at least the partition with my files on it instead of the casper-rw partition?
... Yeah, I'm a moron sometimes.
As a result, I now have access only to Ubuntu 8.04's terminal. As such, I've installed a bootable instance of Ubuntu 11.04 on a 16GB USB drive. I've created a roughly 2.68GB casper-rw partition. Ubuntu 11.04 worked for awhile but now boots but refuses to load, and when I look at the log thing that appears when you press arrowkeys at the loading screen, I see that when it's loading, it encounters a multitude of errors such as being unable to unmount devices because they're busy and trying to access closed loops, and then stops and doesn't do anything at all. I figured that I must have broken it somehow and that I'd get my files off, format the drive, install Ubuntu on the drive again, and put my files back on with another USB drive I have that's large enough to store my files but not large enough to store another installation of Ubuntu, but when I put my flash drive that has the broken Ubuntu installed on it into my larger and more powerful laptop that has Windows Vista installed, Windows Vista only sees the casper-rw partition and identifies everything in the bootable partition as "free space." I wonder if it does this with multiboot hard drives as well. What's that old joke about Windows assuming it's the only operating system on the computer again...?
I could theoretically use my broken installation of Ubuntu 8.04 to move my files, but to do that, I'd have to mount the two USB drives I'd be working with, and I can't figure out how to mount devices; none of the tutorials I've read seem to work for me. I know Ubuntu 8.04 itself must do it somehow; from what I've heard, mounting devices is a crucial part of the way it loads.
Anyway, is there any way to get Windows Vista to recognize both partitions of the USB drive, or at least the partition with my files on it instead of the casper-rw partition?
