Hello THURSTON.

19 Sep 04 23:43, you wrote to KEN HRYNCHUK:

 KH>> TERRY VERNON wrote to KEN HRYNCHUK on 09-16-04 21:33:

 KH> KH>> Has anyone done 8-bit file transfers via the PC's parallel
 KH> KH>> port?

 KH> TV>> Once did it regularly, using a systen called (IIRC) LapLink.
 KH> TV>> The program came with a fancy cable with both parallel and
 KH> TV>> serial connectors - I MAY even have one of those aruund here
 KH> TV>> somewhere!

 KH>> Thanks, Terry; I've read conflicting reports re: Laplink being
 KH>> 8-bit. Perhaps some versions were 4-bit only? Do you remember
 KH>> running across any cable documentation in Laplink's docs?

 TA> The LapLink Everywhere Deluxe Gold I bought in Feb. 2003 requires
 TA> a Win 98 or higher; suggesting possible 16-bit.

16 bit what?  there's not 16 addressable pins on a printer port.

 TA> (I didn't receive my upgrade rebate before they filed for Chap.11 8-(

 TA> I got "PC Relocator" last week that promises Win 9x,ME,NT,2000 or
 TA> XP.

 TA>  Any ideas for also transferring my SuSE 9.0 linux partition that
 TA> shares my Win 98se on the same 40 gHz HD when I install my new 80 gHz
 TA> hard drive some rainy day ???

If you haven't got real network adapators for both machines you could try
PLIP (with the parallel cable)  I had no success with my old, (and possibly
partially defective) hardware.

once PLIP is up use nfs, or cpio over rsh, or scp, or rsync ...etc to move
the data over the link.

if you've got a CD burner in the old machine you try using dump (or similar
) to make a backup which you can resore on the new machine after a minimal
install,  dunno how many gigabytes of linux stuff you want to move.


but If you're in a hurry take the case off both machines, unplug the cd
drive from one and plug the hard drive in there. use linux to copy linux.

(usually it's possible to umplug the cd ribbon cable from the motherboard
and plug the ribbon cable from the other pc in there, the turn both
machines on
(unless you can mae the power cable reach the "borrowed" hard drive too.)

it's probably easiest to boot linux on the old machine and use that to do
the copy, but another way would be to boot the install/recovery disk in the
new machine ad use the menus on that to prepare the hard disk before going
to the command-line and mounting the old data and copying it across.

Jasen

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