Re: USB on Debian Potato?

Dances With Crows wrote:

The old box has a NIC, doesn't it? If so, the solution is easy:
crossover cable. Heck, if the new box is new enough, its NIC will
be able to autodetect and swap Rx and Tx on its own,
so you can just use
an ordinary length of Cat5.

I don't know enough to understand your solution. Is a NIC an ethernet
port? If so, both computers have one. Assuming that's what you mean,
how do I get the two computers to talk to each other? Can I mount an
old-system filesytem on the new system, and then do a "cpio -p ..." to
transfer everything under some directory on the old system to a
directory on the new system?

The new computer was just purchased new from Dell. What's a "Cat5"
cable? The only ethernet connections I've ever made are between my old
computer and the cable modem, and I don't know if that's "crossover" or
"straight-through".

I've also got a wireless hub that has a couple of ethernet ports on it
(that's how I'm actually currently connecting my old computer to the
cable modem). I suspect I could use that to maybe get a remote
filesystem mounted, but I've never done that and don't currently know
how to do it. I HAVE been able to ftp some files between my old sustem
and my wife's MAC that way, but that wouldn't be practical for the
transfer of a very large directory tree (because I think the "mput" of
ftp only takes a list a files)...I think I need to be able to mount a
remote filesystem on one of the machines.

Which kernel did Potato use? You need 2.4 for USB support, and
depending on how new the USB drive is, you may need a
recent revision.

I don't remember what it is...how do I find out?

Mike Fontenot
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