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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users [Debian, Ethernet, crazy ideas] Data transfer, the hard way... Post 302412905 by pludi on Wednesday 14th of April 2010 01:15:08 AM
Old 04-14-2010
It's a common misconception, backed by the PC manufacturers, that opening a PC will void the warranty. This is not true, as a PC (Personal Computer) by definition can be Personalized by adding (not replacing) new hardware, provided this is all you do. As long as you apply great care, and maybe document your steps (to be on the safe side), you shouldn't have any problems.

If you think this is too risky: generally, you can move the discs to the old PC, and Debian should largely boot as if nothing happened. If it does give you problems, boot it into single user mode (append "init=S" to the kernel arguments), and disable the services that act up. To connect the 2 PCs, unless you also have a hub or switch lying around, you'll need a crossover cable.

One thing to keep in mind: if the machine you intend to transfer files from is as old as you suggest, it probably only has a 10Mbit card, which would mean a max of 1 MB/s transfer speed, or about 18 minutes per GB.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

uml_switch

UML_SWITCH(1)						      General Commands Manual						     UML_SWITCH(1)

NAME

       uml_switch -- switch daemon for user-mode Linux

SYNOPSIS

       uml_switch [-unix control_socket data_socket]  [-hub]  [-tap tun device]  [-compat-v0]  [-daemon]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the uml_switch program.

       This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       uml_switch is a daemon for managing a virtual network between user-mode Linux systems, with no connection to the host system's network.

       It will listen for connections on a pair of UNIX domain sockets, and forward packets between clients which connect to them.

OPTIONS

       -unix control_socket data_socket
		 Listen on the specified pair of sockets, instead of the defaults.

       -hub	 Act  like  a hub.  This means that packets received will be broadcast over all virtual links.	The default is to act as a switch,
		 where packets are only sent to the link matching the destination MAC address of the packet.

       -tap tap device
		 Connect the switch to a dynamically created tap device on the host

       -compat-v0
		 Specify control protocol version 0 compatibility.

       -daemon	 Run in the background as a daemon.

SEE ALSO

       linux(1)

       The UserModeLinux-HOWTO (link to URL http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.html)

AUTHOR

       uml_switch was written by Jeff Dike and others.

       This manual page was written by Matt Zimmerman mdz@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).   Permission	is
       granted	to  copy,  distribute  and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later
       version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

																     UML_SWITCH(1)
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