This page is dedicated to solve problems with computer with dual booting, with Linux unconnected.
It´s speciall centered in the problem of:
- A newbie person to Debian, with dual booting computer.
- Changes Internet access technology (i.e. from ["ADSL"] or ["cablemodem"] to HSPA mobile modem -as the ["Huawei E220"] -).
- The telecommunications operator doesn´t initially offer support for Linux.
- S/he installs and runs the drivers for the USB módem in Windows.
S/he can download the drivers for Linux from Windows, using the web (VodafoneMobileConnectCardDriverForLinux).
- There are a lot of dependencies´ troubles and need to install 10 *.["deb"] packages (see the dependencies in the cited page about the driver).
- Windows cannot read the /mnt/hdb1 ["ext3"] filesystem, where Linux is installed.
- The user cannot connect to the Internet using Linux to apt-get.
Questions:
- Which is the easier and quicklier way to download and install the packages ?.
- Is there any utility written for Windows that can perform this ? : tunneling to the Linux operating system to read the Linux hard disk (the Linux filesystem can be unreadable for Windows), read the sources.list, detect which packages to download and dowload then to the Linux hard disk.
Remember that the Internet connection is vital for a computer. Once restablished, the user can apt-get all other needed files.
See also
- ["DualBoot/FreeDOS"]
["?BootFloppy"]