-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:24:53AM -0600, Cindy Cullen wrote: > > > know how to network them as Linux machines - so maybe that's my first step. > Because once I CAN see the windows files, I'll need a way to transfer them > from that machine to my other machine. The files are mostly pictures (some > datafiles) and will be rather large. My only other viable option would be to > copy them to CD and I don't know how to do that either. I have a 250G hard > drive on the other machine, so my best option is to copy the files to that > machine. Where should I go to find info on networking these two machines? I give up, where? :)
Ok, now, I'm almost sure that Mepis supports ntfs out of the box, I should have checked it last night. I know the FreeBSIE CD does, but it's 550 megs or so, and you're on dialup. Let's assume that you find the point and click book and the Mepis CD supports NTFS. Let's also assume that your home network is the typical 192.168.1.x series, and that you get your addresses from DCHP--err DHCP. Now, you have a working Linux box with an address of 192.168.1.111 that has a user account of cindy on it. So, boot the MS box with the Mepis CD. All goes smoothly, it detects the network card and you'll see, on the desktop, your various hard drive partitions including the one with the needed data. Open a terminal window--I think you've seen KDE, but if not, there's a tiny icon in the lower right of the desktop (oh, I don't know if they tell you this, though I'm sure they do in the book, but once the CD boots, you log in as root with a password of root. ) So, once you have that open mkdir msstuff mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 msstuff (I am on a FreeBSD box right now, which does it more intuitively with mount_ntfs--I am guessing that the -t flag is ntfs--if they say unknown option do man mount Then, search for the term in the man page /ntfs If you get nothing try /NTFS You search through man pages just as you do with the vi editor (and the ex editor which is probably where it comes from, with a slash and the term, but it's case-sensitive) Hopefully, that will give you the proper syntax, but I'm fairly sure that -t ntfs will work. If you do this and it still doesn't mount, then send Chad a bill for the book, because he's a nice guy and I'm poor. <ducks and runs> However, let's assume that works. Now cd msstuff scp -r My <tab> hitting the tab key will print out something like My\ Documents (with a backslash to escape the space--tab completion is a great thing save when you think you used it to cd into /usr/obj and only cd'd into /usr and then do rm -rf * (see last night's post). Once it prints out My\ Documents on the command line continue the command with (you already have on the command line cp -r My\ Documents/) [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, the entire command is scp -r My \Documents [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This will copy the My Documents directory into your /home/cindy directory on 192.168.1.111 Far less complex than it seems when read. :) - -- Scott GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Giles: What are you doing? Willow: Oh. Sorry. The reflection thing that you don't have...Angel, how do you shave? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBsH3s+lTVdes0Z9YRAsJxAJ4lDTHM87av8pHLkQHayr4/z1ba9ACgsgkB Xc9mjoBa1QT3vDnMdCgrqgI= =2xYv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
