Backing up data from a command line.
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John Hulse
Hello,
I am very new to Ubunto. I am ell versed in Windows 98-Windows 8. I forgot my password for Ubunto 8.04. It no longer boots to the Ubunto graphical log in for user name and password it boots to a command line asking for the user name and password. When I tried to boot into the recovery console I get an error message " MKDIR: cannot create directory /tmp. .x11-unix : to many links". Then it goes to the command prompt root@carlyn:~#. I basically need to copy my pictures and documents from this command line etc. to my external USB drive so I can reinstall and move on.
Thanks,
John
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