Linux

I have been experimenting with Linux and the latest one is Mint. After a few weeks it has become like some of the others I have tried, gone into silly mode. In other words the Linux bugs have defeted me. Yeh, I have no idea what I am doing to a point but I like to see how things tick and try different combinations etc, Linux hates it and usually throws a wobbly and it has done in this case. I thought I was doing well with Mint, but I can't gain access, it only opens up to a comand basis that asks me for my name and password. Thats it!! I need to gain access therefore, from XP to the drive and dig out some files, but XP doesn't want to see that drive. Has anyone any ideas on how to over come this and gain access to these files?

I am going to try BSD next but when looking at downloading there seems to be several files to down load. Do I need to download them all or just one of them?

Looking forward to your answers

Thanks

Tony

download a live cd of any distribution, maybe knoppix, ubuntu or dsl and boot from that linux. after that you can mount your internal drive and access all the needed files...

There are many links to the most popular Linux distros here:

Linux Distributions - Links

Thanks for the advice. I had a copy of Puppy and used that and that resolved my problem. Thank you so much

XP likely sees it just fine, and has no idea how to deal with it. Windows understands only NTFS and FAT filesystems, and neither have the fundamental features UNIX is based on. There is an addon for windows to let it understand ext2 or ext3 filesystems, if that's what Mint is using. Ext2 IFS For Windows