On Thursday 12 August 2004 20:45, Jesse L. Purdom wrote:
Hi Carlos,
¿Serial? ¿Parallel? Er... I hope you have lots of patience... and I mean _lots_.
X'-)
Well, I like to think I'm a patient sort of person. :-)
Seriously, I know the serial/parallel route would be slow, but I'm not backing up very much data (just /home so I can restore my data after upgrading to SuSE v9.1) so it wouldn't be too bad. I have been looking into USB, and the laptop I'm using does support USB v1. My main concern is finding a solution that SuSE v8 Pro and my laptop will work with and I don't want to spend the money on a USB device just to find out that I wont be able to get it to work, at least with a serial/parallel based solution I know I'll be able to make it fly.
At this point I'm considering getting a USB HDD enclosure and putting a spare 20GB IDE HDD in it and trying that. I can get the enclosure for around $50 so it wont be a huge investment. Right now money is tight so I'm being fairly conservative on what I'm willing to try.
Thanks for the feedback.
Jesse You might consider something like I've done on my box... if you have a huge HD so you're not cramped. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 2733 21952791 83 Linux /dev/hda2 2734 3648 7349737+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 3649 7296 29302560 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 3649 3760 899608+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 3761 7296 28402888+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda1= / (21952112)
/dev/hda2= /backups (7234296)
/dev/hda3=