Christy Burton: Good Guy says, “I burned a copy of Ubuntu 8.10 by 86 live CD which I intend on giving to my sister-in-law so she can recover some files for unbootable Windows Vista machine. I've booted one of my PCs from it in order to practice the procedure so I could walk you through it. When it came up, I was able to see the NTFS partitions as expected but it wouldn’t allow me to eject the live CD and insert a data CD so I could copy the recovered files to it.
Since it booted from the Live CD, I supposed that makes sense but I thought it would ask you if you knew any solution to use the CD drive. I own 8 gig USB2 Flash drive and mounted and displayed in Ubuntu. I also own a 750 gig USB to its external hard drive there which I would use if I was working on my own PCs so he does want to lend that out. Is there any solution that you can suggest?”
Robbie Ferguson: You know I just stop right there because Good Guy what happened there is like Ubuntu is actually running from your CD drive so you can't eject that drive because it’s basically acting like your virtual environment. Everything is being loaded off of that drive. So what you need to do if you wanted to use CD and you notice that when we did that feature, we never talked all of those using CDs because it’s not really a viable option. You would have to have a secondary burner.
So you could boot from say a CD-ROM drive or another burner and then you would have to have a second burner so that you could actually burn at the same time. So it’s doable but you have to have two drives in order to do that. With the price of flash drives and stuff, don’t use disposable media. I mean it’s not even worth your while. You might as well just grab a flash card from local super center. They are so cheap these days.
Christy Burton: That’s true.
Robbie Ferguson: You can get like 4 gig drive for just a couple of bucks so that’s really the way to go but you would have to absolutely have to have secondary drive.
Christy Burton: Right, then he’s got one more little thing here. In the meet video you used the SMB://demo command to write to a network share. Is demo the Windows for computer name in the control panel system.
Robbie Ferguson: Yeah, that’s right. Demo is the name of the computer that I was using at that time that had that share on it. And it gets confusing when we used weird computer names. That would be whatever your computer name on Windows OS, absolutely.
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