James If the two are networked you could use "tar" or graphical "guiTAR" and then send them over using ftp and then untar them. I've used tar and it's short and sweet. I moved my home directory to another partition on another drive and it worked flawlessly. I deleted the old home directory since I had a copy of it on another partition and then went into fstab and said the new partition was /home and then mounted it. It worked great. Sounds like a similar situtation. I just looked at "guiTAR" and you can add files similar to the zip programs. I made the mistake of cp files from one directory to another and I ended up having to change all of the permissions. It wasn't fun. Also if the computers are networked I think you can mount the drive on the other machine. I'm not sure I'm running a single machine. As far as you other question inetd.conf I'm running Debian. I've loaded mandrake grabbed all the themes from it to use it on Debian. There might be a Debian theme package out there but it was easy enought to copy them. This is my quetion is there a Debian package of mondo themes? Tim On Sunday 08 July 2001 23:19, you wrote: > I am currently turning an older box into a new Mandrake 8 system. I have > Mandrake 7 on a server which is already running smoothly.. and I want to > keep it that way, thus I don't want to "upgrade" the Mandrake 7 because I > might end up breaking something in the process. So I plan on replacing > the 7 box with the 8 box once I am sure the 8 box works properly as my > business server, then turning the 7 box into an 8. > > What I want to do is transfer the vital files, the files I know I need, > from 7 to 8. My first thought was FTP, but then I got to wondering if > there is a better method for copying specified files from 7 to 8. Should > I purchase Norton Ghost for this simplest of needs, or is there something > smaller and more convenient (free) out there? > > Also, does anyone know where the heck inetd.conf went in Mandrake 8? I > looked at xinetd.conf, but there isn't much there. I'm a bit confused. > > Thanks. > > james
