booting into kubuntu linux yields the ability to mount the usb drive and the local hard drive. the problem i'm having now is whenever i go into the local drive (read-only mode, mind you), my gui is freezing up. using konqueror or terminal, either way. i can view down to /Users and that's it. i need to go SU to get into the user directories, but when i do, that's when it freezes up. when i go into SU mode, does that somehow allow me to read AND write to the local disk? because that would suck.
right now i'm trying kubuntu in rescue mode. we'll see what this yields.
i'm beginning to think i am typing all this for my own benefit. :-/