[Sussex] A lurker steps out of the shadow.....

[Stephen Williams]

Alan,

Hello. Welcome to the list.

In answer to your question, you'll probably get "Knoppix" as the answer
from many on this list, including me. Great boot CD with plenty of
tools. Even better if you can use the DVD.


On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 17:21 +0000, Alan_Perry at amat.com wrote:
> 
> To All 
> 
> Having been a member of this mail list for a long time I have learnt a
> lot, but now I need some advice. But to show where I'm coming
> from.... 
> 
> Long long ago ( early 90's) I used a Unix system as part of a Test Rig
> and I did the compilation of tweaked files etc and backed it up to
> tape. 
> (This was really handle turning but as a 20 year old it was a bit of a
> buzz) 
> 
> Then came the long years in the wilderness.... 
> 
> For the last couple of years I have been using DSL (versions 2 and 3)
> on an old 300Mhz 586 to get my hand in. 
> The DSL boot cd has been a great help in wipping XP off my colleages
> PC's when they had video / mother board driver issues (and needed to
> re-install XP...) 
> Now I'm running Suse 10.2 on a seperate HDD on my home PC ( I love
> Multi Boot BIOS) 
> 
> Now the problem I have. 
> I am responsible test rigs with PCs running NT or XP (There is one
> running Windows 3.0, but the least said the better....) 
> The short of it is I want to attach a Lap top to the Rigs and back up
> the files. I was given a solution by our IT department, but it was
> unreliable. 
> 
> Now I have found using a Router has been very successfull way of
>  maping drives and copying files etc. 
> 
> What I would prefer is to do away with the Router and use a cross over
> lead. Is this possible? 
> 
> I would like a boot cd for the laptop that starts samba , a dchp
> server and lets the rig connect to the Laptop HDD. is this possible? 
> The only problem appears to be the Laptop runs XP, it seems to have
> been an issue in the past, but things do move on...  
> 
> regards, Alan 
> 
> Alan Perry
> Manufacturing Engineer (but not for long......)
> MEPQ (Test Equipment Engineering)
> Applied Materials UK Ltd
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