[SWLUG] help with fixing machine

Julian Hall lists at kaotic.co.uk
Mon Feb 11 11:16:51 UTC 2008


neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk wrote:
> fixing strategies
>
> As reported recently I have a machine with hard disk problems.
>
> The main linux disk seems to be working but is continually developing faults.
>
> These are my possible lines of strategy.
>
> there are 3 disk on this machine each 20 GB. 
> 1 win 98. 1 linux and one linux for extra data They are all fairly full.
>
> I is old about 8 years old and is a 795 mhz amd
> Bot sure about bioas at present.
>
> 1st strategy put in a fourth disk and using knopix copy across the data I wish to back up.
> There is a separate home partition.
>
> 2 nd strategy try to ftp he files to this win 2000 machine
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> I have  a router How do i ftp  the files across. What are the addresses? How do I find them?
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> I would appreciate any advice /tips.
>
> Neil
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Hi Neil,

Why not just set up a Samba or NFS share on the suspect disk?  Then just 
connect to it in Windows Network places and drag and drop the required 
files from one to the other?  How much data is involved?  Could you 
upload it to your ISP webspace?

Kind regards,

Julian



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