Thank you Charles, Nicholas, and William.. I knew you'd have the answers I need.
>-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Charles Curley >Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:41 AM >To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List - 100% Unmoderated, >High Traffic >Subject: Re: Data extraction > >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 > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
