[olug] Lessons Learned: Using Linux BBC

[Brandon Lederer]

SCP wouldve been my first choice here... i wouldnt have even messed w/ the USB 
thingy.  Usage is simple:

scp file file file file file file file user at ip:~     (the ~ puts the files in 
the users home directory, want em somewhere else... use a path)  I use SCP to 
move files on a single machine   sometimes its just faster when u are trying 
to give files to another user.



On Sunday 28 December 2003 11:38 am, CM Miller wrote:
> I'm posting this as a type of review and wanting to
> get some pointers incase there is a next time.  This
> topic seems to come up once in awhile on the list.
>
> A couple of installfest ago, John Larson, burnt quite
> a few LinuxBBC, http://www.lnx-bbc.org/
>
> My parents W2K box died a slow, painful death and at
> the time F8, safe mode, didn't work so it was a
> perfect time to use LinuxBBC to save what data they
> wanted rescued. The plan was to mount a thumbdrive to
> a usb port and move what I could to it and be done
> with it.
>
> Booted up to Linux BBC and it had a number of choices,
> either text mode or run X.  I tried both and both
> worked well, looks like they use FVWM for the WM.
>
> A thing that I noticed is that it looks like you have
> to be very familiar with command lines to get what you
> needed done.
>
> The funny thing is that I wasn't able to mount my
> thumbdrive under /mnt/rw.  I created a mountpoint
> under /mnt/rw and entry under /etc/fstab.  Still
> didn't work.  The thumbdrive was detected and kernel
> showed usb modules loaded.
>
> Tried to use scp, sftp, and nc to move data to a
> machine that I had a ssh connection to.  It has been
> awhile since I've used these commands so this was a
> challenge and was not able to pull it off.  If anyone
> could post examples of the above mentioned, please do.
>
>
> Thought about using Samba, but has been more then a yr
> since I've set that up as well.  Also tried to used
> LinNeighborhood, since smbd was running on both
> machines, but neither machine did not see each other
> on the network.
>
> Opted for Knoppix 3.3, and had some problems here.
> The NTFS drive and my thumbdrive were recognized but
> when it came time to move data, even using the GUI,
> could not write.  Chmod ugo+rwx on whatever device or
> directory was setup right, but did not work.
>
> ???
>
> As a last deperate move, I tried to boot into Windows
> Safe Mode, which did work and I was able to save the
> data.
>
> Any feedback here would be great.
>
> thanks
>
>
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