Transferring Linux over the network.

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 13, 2011

[ Thanks to Locutus
for this link. ]

“It finally happened. I managed to get my hands on a
superseded workstation that had been replaced by a newer model.
This workstation also had a brother of the same model in which the
motherboard had failed. So I did what any good Borg would do and
mashed the two together to make one monster, multi-cpu, fat ram
beastie. The only thing left to do was install Linux on it.

“But I didn’t want to start from scratch. I wanted to copy my
existing Linux over. The problem being that my current pc was a
sata hard disk and my new BorgMonster was scsi. I looked and
couldn’t find a sata connector on the motherboard so I did the next
best thing. I decided to transfer my existing Linux installation
across the network to my new BorgMonster.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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