NM

IWETHEY v. 0.3.0 | TODO

1,095 registered users | 0 active users | 0 LpH | Statistics
Login | Create New User

Welcome to IWETHEY!

Post #116,521

Picture of deSitter

9/4/03 12:14:59 AM

NM

Doing it from Knoppix is inelegant.

I'd make a minimal boot floppy, do fdisk and mkfs, cp -a everything over without worries about files in use because the only ones would be replaceable log files. Then LILO with alternate target etc. Wait, I just did all that to move to a new disk - so I know it works. Even moved Winders XCVIII over that way.

-drl

Post #116,523

Picture of kmself

9/4/03 12:36:30 AM

Advantages of Knoppix...

First off, I've got a few score disks lying around here.

\r\n\r\n

Second: it's got pretty much all the tools you could want. As well as web browsers and related goodness to allow Net access and Real Work to happen while you're transferring 60 GB of pr0n^WValued Data™. Not to mention fileystem support and other goodies.

\r\n\r\n

Third, much as I like it, Tom's Root Boot is a bit thing. It works in an emergency (and I definitely use, abuse, and love it for what it is). But 1.7 MB is just to thin.

\r\n\r\n

Fourth: as a decent fallback, the LNX-BBC is handy, useful, and almost always sufficien to the task for jobs like this. Granted it has fewer toys, but it is pretty full-featured in the niche of system recovery tools.

\r\n\r\n

Elegance aside, you're quibbling over $0.40 worth of clear plastic. That seems just plain argumentitive. Some of us have work to do, and use the tools available.

\r\n\r\n

I mean, if you could fit a D-9 Cat in your back pocket, and dig planting holes with it, easily, without disturbing the rest of the garden, would you refuse just on principle? Your choice, not mine.

--\r\n Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n [link|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/|http://kmself.home.netcom.com/]\r\n What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n [link|http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/|TWikIWETHEY] -- an experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity. Whatever.\r\n \r\n Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead.\r\n[link|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html|http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html]\r\n

Best way to move to a new Debian box? - (drewk) - (30) - Sept. 3, 2003, 01:23:03 PM EDT

steal karsten's -NT - (boxley) - Sept. 3, 2003, 04:11:33 PM EDT

Wonder if you could... - (gdaustin) - Sept. 3, 2003, 04:18:33 PM EDT

IANK, but I'd do a fresh install. - (Another Scott) - (4) - Sept. 3, 2003, 04:21:22 PM EDT

That's what I'll be doing - (drewk) - (2) - Sept. 3, 2003, 04:39:08 PM EDT

old: dpkg --get-selections ---> new: dpkg --set-selections -NT - (folkert) - (1) - Sept. 3, 2003, 07:11:13 PM EDT

Right, typo, thanks -NT - (drewk) - Sept. 4, 2003, 09:49:02 AM EDT

ICLRPD (new thread) - (kmself) - Sept. 3, 2003, 07:52:12 PM EDT

Personally... - (folkert) - (17) - Sept. 3, 2003, 04:32:14 PM EDT

Too much fiddling required - (drewk) - Sept. 3, 2003, 04:43:28 PM EDT

I*A*K, and IDWGS - (kmself) - (12) - Sept. 3, 2003, 07:39:21 PM EDT

NM - (deSitter) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2003, 12:14:59 AM EDT

Advantages of Knoppix... - (kmself) - Sept. 4, 2003, 12:36:30 AM EDT

IANGNAIY - (drewk) - (9) - Sept. 4, 2003, 09:59:38 AM EDT

Partitioning - (rickmoen) - (7) - Sept. 4, 2003, 09:12:01 PM EDT

Thanks. Very nice. Someone please twikify this... -NT - (Another Scott) - (6) - Sept. 4, 2003, 10:21:35 PM EDT

Done. Please send gentle brickbats this way. - (Another Scott) - (5) - Sept. 6, 2003, 01:10:13 PM EDT

Cool - (rickmoen) - (3) - Sept. 6, 2003, 05:11:51 PM EDT

Re: Cool - (deSitter) - (2) - Sept. 6, 2003, 07:01:03 PM EDT

Why to have a maintenance partition - (rickmoen) - (1) - Sept. 6, 2003, 08:19:24 PM EDT

What he said - (kmself) - Sept. 6, 2003, 09:32:39 PM EDT

Did some edits, see page. -NT - (kmself) - Sept. 6, 2003, 06:53:25 PM EDT

Re: IANGBAIM - (kmself) - Sept. 4, 2003, 09:44:22 PM EDT

I knew this would involve knoppix some how.... - (gdaustin) - (2) - Sept. 3, 2003, 11:44:25 PM EDT

Actually... - (folkert) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2003, 09:48:23 AM EDT

Snork. You MEANT to write that (no edit)! Doubledamint! -NT - (FuManChu) - Sept. 4, 2003, 11:13:42 AM EDT

Migration done - (drewk) - (1) - Sept. 5, 2003, 05:34:20 PM EDT

"Spare Time?" You're a funny man, Mr. Drew. :-) -NT - (Another Scott) - Sept. 5, 2003, 05:47:50 PM EDT

Re: Best way to move to a new Debian box? - (qstephens) - (2) - Sept. 6, 2003, 11:10:13 AM EDT

Re: Best way to move to a new Debian box? - (rickmoen) - (1) - Sept. 6, 2003, 05:04:59 PM EDT

ICLRPD (new thread) - (Steve Lowe) - Sept. 6, 2003, 07:11:48 PM EDT

Does this make any sense to you?
129 ms