jedthehumanoid
10-22-2002, 06:37 PM
recently my dad gave me his old pentium one machine so i could build a firewall for my dsl line under the condition that i cut a couple cd-rs of his hard drive for him. well, to make a long story as short as possible, the firewall was easy to accomplish but the cd's have not been. (seems strange doesn't it?) i currently have his files on an old quantum bigfoot hd attatched to the old machine which is now my firewall. (the quantum is setup as a slave secondary drive.) What I would like to do is mount the drive from the other computer so I can copy the information to my main box that has the cd writer on it. I read that a simple nfs setup isn't very good for the vfat filesystem, so i guess i will have to use samba. i don't mind learning how to do it, but all the how-tos and guides i've seen have been really long. it seems to me to be a bit overbearing for this task. all i want to do is a temporary mount to copy the info.
-before you ask, my mobo on my newer machine doesn't seem to recognize that old hard drive, and when I tried moving the cd burner to the older machine, it always seemed to crash during the cd creation process. I'm certainly open to suggestions here.
-before you ask, my mobo on my newer machine doesn't seem to recognize that old hard drive, and when I tried moving the cd burner to the older machine, it always seemed to crash during the cd creation process. I'm certainly open to suggestions here.