It’s 11:15pm and I’m at my desk, in our cottage, slowly getting things ready so that we can move back home.
Carpets and lino were laid on Thursday and it looks great downstairs. We now have carpet in the hall, in the bathroom, and underlay under it all. Mmm, comfort.
Sherry’s computer got fried in the flood, so with the insurance money plus a bit extra I bought her a 20″ iMac which I’m now in the process of setting up. Part of this involves copying over all her data. Said data is on a number of partitions spanning three drives.
To get the data over I am doing the following:
- Plug HDD in to borrowed computer
- Enable Internet sharing over the iMac’s ethernet port
- Plug a spare router in to the iMac, and then to the borrowed computer
- Boot computer with a Gentoo Minimal Live CD
- Start sshd server
- Find the right partition(s) on the drive and mount them
- On the iMac, connect to the machine via SFTP
- Drag files over to the iMac
- Repeat for each drive
It’s hard to describe just how much I’m looking forward to going Mac –> Mac in the future.
