Rescue and restore damaged photo files from camera

I found this great tool for recovery of damaged files when my D300 turned some nice shots of my kids into an unreadable mess.

sudo aptitude install testdisk

It comes with its own tool for memory cards. Run it via the terminal:

sudo photorec

It is frightening to see what is recoverable!

Link to TestDisk and PhotoRec: http://www.cgsecurity.org/

Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Beta

OK,

So I started with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Beta.

I loaded it in VirtualBox. I put up a virtual harddrive of about 6GB and another of about 1GB. The plan was to use the first to install Ubuntu and also make a swap-partition, and the second to practice mounting.

I booted up the ISO-image (which I downloaded from Ubuntu.com) of the LiveCD. It worked smoothly.

In VirtualBox, I noted, that my wireless connection on my laptop, was detected as a wired network seen from the virtual machine side (that makes sense, and also saved me any potential trouble with the wireless config).

During install, I formated the virtual harddrive, even though I made the drive as a "ext3" when setting up the virtual machine (in fact, I think the install didn't work if I didn't format it again during install).

When the install was finished, I dismounted the ISO-image (in VirtualBox), and rebooted the system.

I updated the system clicking on the "update-icon".

That was it.