There are no apps "installed" on the drive and I have been disciplined to
only use the drive as a data drive. It's actually in an IDE drive in a
removable cage. I have used sneaker net occasionally, to transport the data
to my offsight assembly site (a storage room with a serverserver.) There are
some word docs that were have macros, though. Star-office does not seem to
convert those very well. I will probably just make PDFs from them and
continue on with life. I have managed to have an alternative Linux app for
every Win app I will be giving up. My last hold-out is PcAnywhere. I am
evaluating VNC for remote control access. However, It requires tcpip, but I
need one such that my Linux box can control a win box via tcpip or dialin via
modem. Push comes to shove, I suppose I could always access PcAnywhere (or
any other win app) via VMware.
Truth is, after this change, with only a few minor inconveniences I could
(literally) turn off the win box.
Thanks for the tidbits. any others?
Patrick
On Saturday 16 March 2002 21:34, you wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 09:02:26PM -0500, patrick grantham wrote:
> > I am nearly ready to turn off win box. I have, but one hold out, a drive
> > with every bit (pardon the pun) of data known to my life. I am
> > contemplating was to move the data. It seems easiest to me to attach the
> > drive to the one of the unused IDE connectors, create a mount an away I
> > go. I have done this before, but the drive was formatted FAT32. Whereas
> > the drive I want to move is NTFS. I can think of no compatibly issues.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> This is typically what I do as well, but my drives like this are all
> ext2. According to man mount, ntfs is supported, so you should be able
> to mount the drive. However, you'll want to suck that data off of that
> drive as soon as you can. Another concern would be what type of data it
> is. That is, do you have Linux programs that can understand all that
> data?
>
> Paul
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