There are going to be a lot of dead and dying computers in Christchurch. They either had a brick drop on them or took a swan dive onto the floor.
It will become necessary in a lot of circumstances to transfer files from one hard drive to another. But never fear Tux has a solution underneath his flipper. Use SystemRescueCD[1] in either its live CD or bootable USB versions, and follow these instructions for using netcat[2] and tar to do high volume file transfers across a network; http://www.kevinhatfield.org/?p=423 Cheers Ross Drummond [1] http://www.sysresccd.org/ [2] called nc in some distributions PS. This solution will work on NTFS partitions but will cause an error message when files are opened on the new computer. Googling the error message will provide a solution. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
