At 11:38 PM 10/26/2008, you wrote: >Dave Houghton wrote: > > Hi Jon > > Thanks very much, Chris Morley sorted it out for me, the floppy is up and > > running. > > I have no idea what fdisk is or what it does, so unless some one told me to > > use it I wouldn't. > > >It allows you to change the partition table on the hard drive. Fairly >easy to corrupt the whole disk. > > I only use 3.5" because they are there, mainly use for Gcode files. What do > > you use in stead of floppies? I thought about using the usb ports do you > > think that's a better idea. > > > >USB works fine, probably a lot more reliable in the shop environment. >But, I use the network exclusively, unless it is enough stuff to require >a CD, >like a whole system update. Linux knows Samba as well as FTP. > >Jon
Ubuntu also knows sftp which is a secure ftp based on the secure shell daemon. I gave up using regular ftp years ago both at home and at work to move files around because it passes the username and password in clear text. sftp encrypts the username and password exchange. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
