Thread: Access to hard drive with live cd

is there way can use livecd (ubuntu 9.10) access hard drive , change xorg.config 1 have on hard drive, connected lcd screen , has killed it...

have copy of xorg.config saved on hard drive cant work out how swap them.

saved xorg.config file on desktop of installation

reboot computer , select recovery mode grub menu.

may have press escape(grub) or shift(grub2) key during bootup in order see menu.

wait boot-up processes finish.

select drop root shell prompt option recovery mode menu.

restore file:

code:

cp /home/username/desktop/xorg.conf /etc/x11/xorg.conf

replace username login name.

type:

code:

exit

and choose resume normal boot.


or boot livecd.

• open file manager root:
  press alt+f2 , run:
  
  code:

  gksu nautilus

• mount partition
  
• copy backup file in partition's /etc/x11 directory.

careful!

or terminal:

code:

sudo cp /media/<mountpoint>/home/<username>/desktop/xorg.conf /media/<mountpoint>/etc/x11/xorg.conf

replace <mountpoint> actual mount point , <username> login name.

note: use file manager mount partition
note: can drag file in terminal full path

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