Re: CentOS 5 or Ubuntu 6.06 for remote desktop?

[Derek Agar <derekagar@yahoo.com>]

Steve,
Do you or anyone else know of a good easy backup tool
to where I could ssh into the remote box and backup
the whole HD and then easily extract that onto an
identical machine here to test?
Derek

--- Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:52:51AM -0800, Derek Agar
> wrote:
> > I have a remote user in Lafayette that I am going
> to
> > visit Thursday.  His computer is at fedora 5.  I
> am
> > wondering what would be a better way to go either
> to
> > move him to centos 5.1 or Ubuntu 6.06?
> 
> Upgrading an older Fedora to CentOS is fairly
> painless.  You *might*
> just be able to do the upgrade from the CD/DVD.  If
> not, remove the
> fedora-release package ("rpm -e fedora-release
> --nodeps") and replace it
> with the centos-release package first, then try the
> upgrade from CD/DVD.
> (I've done it before with yum.)
> 
> With the EPEL repo
> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL) getting closer
> to being complete, running CentOS 5 + EPEL 5 isn't
> much different than
> running Fedora Core/Extras 6.
> 
> Steve
> -- 
> steve@silug.org           | Southern Illinois Linux
> Users Group
> (618)624-4440             | See web site for meeting
> details.
> Steven Pritchard          | http://www.silug.org/
> 



      ____________________________________________________________________________________
Be a better friend, newshound, and 
know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile.  Try it now.  http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ 


-
To unsubscribe, send email to majordomo@luci.org with
"unsubscribe luci-discuss" in the body.