Hi All Sorry for asking here instead of browsing Google: But I have not even 24 hours to rescue some configs from a broken hard disk. Data, i.e. Linux configs, that are lost forever if I don't find some way to access them in the next few hours on the old disk. I can't keep the old disk, as Apple, as it seems, wants it back after I got a new one via the warranty I still have with an "Apple Care Protection Plan" ...
The details: The hard disk broke on a PowerBook G4 (TitaniumIV). The repair service already installed a new disk to this machine. I need access to the old disk: The repair service will give me the chance to access the data on the old disk via a firewire connection from the Titanium to the broken disk. This will happen tomorrow noon. Current software on the Titanium: A very rudimentary Debian/testing system is installed: Just enough packages to get the machine booting from the new hard disk, with some additional stuff like curl, lynx etc.. The kernel version on this system is a 2.4.18-newpmac. My idea now was to either boot the Titanium from the Debian/3.0 r1 install CD, to start the first few installer steps and then to copy the data from the old, broken via firewire connected disk to the new disk inside the Titanium. Or, alternatively, simply boot the Debian system from the new disk and try to connect it to the old, via firewire connected disk outside the PowerBook. The problem: I do not know, whether the Debian 3.0 r1 installer system - that is, the 2.4.18 kernel - will *see* the old, via firewire to the Titanium connected disk. And I also don't know anything about firewire technology until now; I just had a look to the 2.4.18 config on the Titanium /boot dir, and I see several instances of "CONFIG_IEEE1394*" modules. This actually means this kernel is ready for firewire connections? Positive? Excerpt from the current 2.4.18 config: ---------------------------------- CONFIG_IEEE1394=m CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX=m CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394=m CONFIG_IEEE1394_VIDEO1394=m CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2=m CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=m ---------------------------------- I consider installing a newer 2.6 (2.4?) kernel for the fresher firewire drivers: Does anyone know where to get a readily installable, pre-compiled ppc kernel that does not boot via initrd: I don't want this initrd stuff on my machine, if possible: It is complicating things unnecessarily, AFAICT .. And last question - important because I need to find a way to mount the old disk outside: How does the kernel call a hard disk that is connected via firewire: /dev/hd[?] ... Or something else? Best Regards And thanks in anticipation Wolfgang
