Re: USB on Debian Potato?

Aragorn wrote:

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

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.

But without the NFS stuff, I can presumably do an ftp between the old
and new machine, right? So, if I can find enough space on my (old) disk
somewhere, I could use cpio to create a big cpio file of all (or maybe
just a portion) of the directory tree I want to transfer, and then just
ftp that big file. I might not have enough space to do all of that at
once, but could probably do it in several smaller chunks.
That sounds like the only solution I've heard that might not require
installing any addtional software, or even opening up either case.

Mike Fontenot
.

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