Re: USB on Debian Potato?

On Friday 25 July 2008 19:25, someone identifying as *Mike Fontenot* wrote
in /comp.os.linux.hardware:/

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?

NIC = Network Interface Connector.

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?

Yes, provided that one of the computers is running an NFS server and the
other one has NFS client support built into the kernel - or at the very
least as a loadable module.

The new computer was just purchased new from Dell. What's a "Cat5"
cable?

A Category 5 ethernet cable. Comes as UTP or STP, but STP is more expensive
and UTP is already quite good for Gigabit networking if you use a Cat 5E
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".

Typically that would be a "straight" cable. Crossover cables are used
between computers without that the connection passes through a router,
switch or hub.

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.

Look into NFS.

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?

uname -a

.... will tell you all about the kernel you're running.

--
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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