I have a USB flash drive that I suspect has a corrupt mbr and found this page which says:

Sadly I don't have linux installed on my computer and figured that XTerm on my N810 is the closest thing I have to a terminal in linux. However, it doesn't seem to work. sudo su doesn't work but I used sudo gainroot (I'm not even sure if those are similiar) but when I type in apt-get install mbr, it says, "Couldn't find package mbr." Is this a lost cause? Should I find an actual linux distro to use on my computer?

And while we're on the linux distro topic, what is a good one for a linux newbie? Do I have to worry about finding drivers for the mobo, video card, etc.? How do I know what type of linux it is? I've seen the terms Debian, Ubuntu, KDE, Redhat, etc. tossed around. Any differences/preferences?

Thanks!

You can use testdisk q=

I assume you have a usb host cable so that you can plug the usb stick into the N810.

You will need to be root. http://nitstuff.appspot.com/dists/ch....0-4_armel.deb
then you can simply type "root" into terminal. (while you are at it grab the rest of the packages from http://nitstuff.appspot.com )

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34098

Working link: http://www.box.net/os2008#/os2008/1/38267074

But anyway you could certainly use a live-cd. For your purpose, I'd get the GParted Live CD because it has testdisk installed. Download, burn as ISO to a CD/DVD.

Other good live-cds are Puppy, DSL, Sabayon (warning: bloated), and I used to recommend Knoppix but no longer.

As far as installations go. Fedora, Ubuntu, Linux Mint (Ubuntu) are good starts distro-wise.

Here is a guide for testdisk (I guess it also runs on DOS?) http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestD...table_recovery