Quote:
Originally Posted by unSpawn
I'd rather you install install Ubuntu afterwards (time-wise) but in terms of fscking drive assignments up it might be better to install Ubuntu before you back up the victim hard disk, especially if the desktop machine contains only 1 hard disk. Your choice and none is bad. If you install Ubuntu first please choose a reasonable set of applications to install (please don't install everything), ensure network connectivity is up so you can update and install ddrescue, Photorec and Testdisk.
* Whatever you decide please indicate your choice and when you're ready so we can move on. Once you've booted into your Live CD or Ubuntu installation please provide output of 'sudo fdisk -l; sudo cat /etc/fstab; sudo mount' and tell me which partition will hold the backup file.
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Output of fdisk -l;
isk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb709b709
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 40964095 20378624 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 40968258 488395485 223713614 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 40968277 488395485 223713604+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Output of cat /etc/fstab
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## ATTENTION: THIS IS THE FSTAB ON THE LIVECD ##
## PLEASE EDIT THE FSTAB at /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab ##
####################################################
tmpfs / tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
Output of mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755)
/dev/sr0 on /livemnt/boot type iso9660 (ro,relatime,mode=0644)
/dev/loop0 on /livemnt/squashfs type squashfs (ro,relatime)
tmpfs on /livemnt/memory type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
none on / type aufs (rw,noatime,si=dd112f87)
tmpfs on /livemnt/tftpmem type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=524288k)
none on /tftpboot type aufs (rw,relatime,si=dd2abf87)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
rc-svcdir on /lib/rc/init.d type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=1024k,mode=755)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)