From: unruh on
On 2010-06-03, Todd <todd(a)invalid.com> wrote:
> On 06/02/2010 07:32 PM, unruh wrote:
>
>> However you seem to imply that it DOES have internet access ( you talk
>> about telnet) so you DO know how to get anything on or off it.
>
> That was the purpose of the post. Is there any way to
> transfer file over a telnet connection?
>

rcp, rsh

From: Robert Riches on
On 2010-06-04, unruh <unruh(a)wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
> On 2010-06-03, AZ Nomad <aznomad.3(a)PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:27:39 GMT, unruh <unruh(a)wormhole.physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>>On 2010-06-03, Pascal Hambourg <boite-a-spam(a)plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote:
>>>> unruh a ?crit :
>>>>>
>>>>> ftp is fine.
>>>>> The problem is that you do not know that the transfer went OK as ftp
>>>>> does not checking.
>>>>
>>>> md5sum on each end comes in handy.
>>
>>>It does, but running md5sum on 10000 files manually is way worse than
>>>having it done automatically by rsync.
>>
>> you only have to md5sum the tar file.
>
> I may be wrong but I suspect he does not have room on his trive to tar
> up all of the data directory. Thus he would have to pipe the tar, or tar
> each file individually and send it and erase it. Ouch.

If the source data is static, tar it once piped to md5sum, tar it
again piped so as to transfer it out, and tar it again piped to
md5sum for good measure.

--
Robert Riches
spamtrap42(a)verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
From: Todd on
On 06/03/2010 03:04 PM, General Schvantzkoph wrote:
> Are there any good IDE ports on the box? If FTP doesn't work then the
> easiest thing would be to plug in an old IDE drive and just do a cp. You
> could use the CDROM IDE port if nothing else is available.

I could go by the used computer shop and see if I could
pick up a 2 GB drive that would work with his bios.

fdisk is missing the "list" command.
From: Todd on
On 06/03/2010 09:44 PM, unruh wrote:
> On 2010-06-03, Todd<todd(a)invalid.com> wrote:
>> On 06/02/2010 07:32 PM, unruh wrote:
>>
>>> However you seem to imply that it DOES have internet access ( you talk
>>> about telnet) so you DO know how to get anything on or off it.
>>
>> That was the purpose of the post. Is there any way to
>> transfer file over a telnet connection?
>>
>
> rcp, rsh
>
You know what. I think he does have rcp. What would I need
to do to the new server to get it to accept rcp?

-T
From: Todd on
On 06/03/2010 03:12 PM, Robert Heller wrote:

>> They will be inches from each other. I was hoping to avoid
>> having to set up ftpd on the new machine.
>
> It will be easier that trying to get a version of ssh running on the
> old system. Given its age, finding a compatible binary might be close
> to impossible and unless it has all the stuff needed to build ssh, it
> may not be possible to build ssh for it. Since it almost certainly has
> both tar and ftp, the easy solution is just install ftpd (vsftpd) on the
> new box (this will be trivial, since a stock binary is available for
> CentOS 5.5).

You have a point there