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Distribution: Slackware & Slamd64. What else is there?
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Options for connecting two PCs?
Hi guys,
Someone I know is willing to give me an old PC on the condition that I burn CDs of stuff from his hard drive. It's an old PC with no CD. He said "all you need is a cable" but he never did anything about it so I guess it's more complicated than that.
I have a CD burner in my PC but I don't know how to connect these two machines. After I get his stuff off that HD I'll fdisk his winbloze to hell and then I want to clone a Linux system from my machine onto the old machine. What are the possibilities? I can't swap drives since his is a tower and mine is a laptop.
well you certainly could just swap drives, get a cheap external usb ide drive caddy or something... but yeah just use a network cable (crossover if you don't have a hub, and put them on the same network and off you go.
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well you certainly could just swap drives, get a cheap external usb ide drive caddy or something... but yeah just use a network cable (crossover if you don't have a hub, and put them on the same network and off you go.
Can't swap drives, as mentioned
How can I put them on the same network if there is no network? All I have is my PC and (not yet) his old clunker.
The external drive caddy is an idea but it would probably cost more than that PC is worth
if you have two pc's with a nic in each an a 1 metre ethernet xover cable, you have a network.
LOL 15 pounds is probably all the other machine is worth
Suppose he has an ethernet card and I get a cable. What happens then? What will the winbloze machine look like to Linux and vice versa? Should I ftp everything across or is there another (better) way?
look like? it'll look like a another ethernet host you can copy across data in a myriad off different ways, http, ssh, smb, ftp... up to you really. if his machine is windows then i'd guess just using a windows network share (SMB/CIFS) is the easiest option. if youre using KDE or Gnome or somethign like that, then it's normally just a case of doing smb://192.168.0.2 in their file managers address bar or similar.
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Options for connecting two PCs?
you can copy across data in a myriad off different ways, http, ssh, smb, ftp... up to you really. if his machine is windows then i'd guess just using a windows network share (SMB/CIFS) is the easiest option. if youre using KDE or Gnome or somethign like that, then it's normally just a case of doing smb://192.168.0.2 in their file managers address bar or similar.
