ACER Extensa model 390 - Any special boot problems ?

[Julian H. Stacey]

Chris Miller wrote:
> I'm not familiar with this laptop, but any reason why you can't just
> pull the hard drive out of it and put it in another computer as the
> slave.  Then just pull the data off like any other hard drive in the
> system.

It's what I told owner I'd prefer.  But I'm the one with FreeBSD
knowledge & IDE adapter & ethernet spare card & PLIP & SLIP cables,
but laptop is with owner, who gave it a custom linux kernel for a
now dead ethernet card, & has private data on it. It's probably a
case of him bringing it to me & my equipment, or to a BSD computer
club evening where we can more laboriously/dangerously try less options.

>   You can get 2.5" to 5.25" connector converters for about $5 which will

Got one, thanks.  The electrical conversion bit is 2.5" to 3.5"
IDE, but some do come with aluminium whether for 3.5" discs or 5.25"
slots.  (As usual USA price seems cheaper)

Herbert: To get your data off in complete privacy, you could borrow mine, or
 buy one of those adapters in Schiller str, & put your disc on a linux tower.

> allow you to put the hard drive in any desktop machine.  Or put it in a
> newer laptop and run a live cd.  If it's a linux partition that you are
> trying to get the data off of and it is using a filesystem that FreeBSD
> doesn't understand then just use a linux live cd to make the backup. 

No cdrom drive. I guess a modern unstripped Linux kernel can boot
off floppies though, then need to config an ether card to offload
data (a Linux job for Herbert rather than a BSD job for me).

Thanks.

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