Yes it can. Download and burn this image to cd (it's only 25M). http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/trinux/trinux-80rc2-2.4.5.iso Pop the CD into the machine and boot. Assuming you can boot from CD, you'll get a bash shell prompt running as root. Any drives that were detected will be listed on / (e.g. /hda1 /hdb /hdc). Mount the CD and load any aditional packages that you will need (network card driver, ext3, samba, nfs, pcmcia, etc...) and copy your files off. Good luck On Sat, 2003-04-26 at 13:31, Ben Bargabus wrote: > Hello, > I have an NT machine that will no longer boot (long story) but I'd like > to get onto the drive and retrieve a few files I haven't backed up > before blowing everything away and reinstalling. The problem I have is > that my NT box has its drive formatted as NTFS so I can't just use a DOS > boot disk to get in there. Here's my question, can I build a linux > install that will fit on a floppy with NTFS support and a driver for my > 3Com fastether xl card (so I can connect to another box and transfer > said files off)? Which distro(s) would work well for this? Are there > any HOWTOs you could point me to? > Thanks for all your help, > Ben. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Chris Frederick <cdf123 at cdf123.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list