[Sluglug] IDE HD transfer and crossover cables.

[Erich]

Hello, again! More harddisk questions.

My roommate has a 200 GB harddrive he doesn't need, and is offering it to me
at a very reasonable price. However, I already have two IDE drives attached
to my motherboard. One, the one I will keep, has three partitions: hda1
(/boot), hda2 (swap), hda3 (/). The other, the one I wish to replace, houses
just hdb1 (/home).

So, my first question is this: what's the easiest way to painlessly transfer
these files? I was thinking of just backing up my /home director, unmount
the drive, and edit the fstab, then turn off the computer, plug in the new
drive, boot with a livecd, format the drive and copy the files, un-edit the
fstab (hey, I actually don't need to edit the fstab, do I?), and be happy.
Will that work?

Second question: any way I can still use that old IDE drive? My Motherboard
is RAID compatible, but I've never even looked into that sort of thing in
the slightest bit - it's my impression that that's an SATA thing, only.

If not, anyone want a ~35 gig IDE drive? It's about 7 years old, due to
crash any day I'd think, though it's been running fine with no complaints.


Last thing. I've been using my mac laptop to rip DVD's (that I own,
naturally). Thing is, it's only got 30 gigs of HD space itself, and that's
almost all gone. I was going to just scp all the files to my linux computer,
then copy 'm back when I needed them, but each DVD is about 3.5 gigs and
UCSC's resnet policy limits us to 2 gigs of bandwidth a day. I was thinking
of setting up a crossover cable connection between the two, but I have no
idea how to do that. Also, if there is a faster method, that'd be great -
10Mb/second is fast, but these files are HUGE. Er, wait, it might be 100Mb/s
with a crossover cable, instead of the 10Mb/s over 802.11g. Thinking through
my fingers, sorry.

Oh, and I have an even laster question while I'm at it - anyone know the
campus's policy on a LAN Apache server? I heard if you tell it to work on
port 81, it'll work fine. Is there any way we can have resnet give a certain
computer a static IP?

Many thanks,
Erich Blume