On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:52:11AM -0400, Jones, Scott (GE Money, consultant) wrote: > I have a drive in a spare machine, from which I want to copy, over my > home LAN, the various folders, /, /var, /usr /home to another machine > with a much larger hdd. I have tried booting the machine using a live > ubuntu 8.10 desktop disc.. But have trouble getting networking on this > machine, to 'SEE' my other linux box, which also runs ubuntu 8.10 > desktop.
What do you mean by "SEE"? You can't get on the network? You don't see it in Places-> Network? I'm going to assume the former, because 1) I never use the latter, and 2) you don't want to use "Windows networking" (aka Samba) anyway. This sounds like a networking problem. Does your DHCP server have an entry for the spare machine? If not, I would use ifconfig and route to manually set up the spare machine (assuming this is a one-off job). First, on Ubuntu, take NetworkManager out and shoot it. /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop Then, adjusting to suit your network: IF=eth0 ifconfig $IF 192.168.23.4 route del default route add default gw 192.168.23.31 route -n cat > /etc/resolv.conf <<EORES search localdomain nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 192.168.23.30 nameserver 192.168.23.4 EORES ifconfig $IF You should now be on the network. Ping a known good host by IP address to verify networking, then by host name to verify name lookup. Then use rsync, as Nicholas suggested, and *NOT* samba. Personally, I'd use finnix for this. Much faster boot time, and no NetworkManager to get in your way. > > Am I approaching this the right way? Is there any easier way, short of > pulling the drive and installing in this other machine, to just mount > each folder and pull the data that way? I want to move it over on my > network if possible. > > Scott > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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