Re: Floppy boot

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Ian Wright wrote:

> I have success! It was Al's method which eventually worked, much to my
> surprise.

Gee whiz, thanks ;)))

> I went into the setup program and found that the hard disk had set
> itself to 'normal CHS ' mode and so, after a little messing about , I tried
> 'extended CHS' mode and it worked perfectly, without having to repartition,
> reload or anything.

To be honest, 90% of LI problems come from this. At least, 90% of *my* LI
problems have come from this!! Maybe I just spend too long 'optimising' my
BIOS ;)) I always mess something up in there.. 

> So, I now have 2 linux boxes on my network which seem to be able to
> communicate with each other - I can ping back and forth and rlogin from
> either to the other. Now I have to try to find out how to shift files from
> one to the other - do I mount a directory of one on the other and just copy
> them across or what? Can someone give me a clue please - with an example
> command rather than just saying do this and then that, remember, I am a
> 'novice home user' ;o)

You'll need to setup NFS to do this, which isn't especially easy, but not
necessarily tough. The HOWTO is fairly good, although not magical, and
probably something you ought to read fairly fully..

Cheers,

Alex.


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