[CS-FSLUG] Copying laptop harddrive contents

[Josiah Ritchie]

I'd suggest scanning that drive for corruption. That's what I might
expect to see if the file has some weirdness to it related to drive
corruption. Though, that's my windows admin side coming through. JSR/

On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 01:29, N. Thompson wrote:
> I'm not to good with my communication skills, I was just trying to say 
> thanks for replying.
> I did manage to get scp working using ifconfig, I had to reboot the 
> laptop after all the work I had done, start the ssh deamon again and 
> then get the ip with ifconfig.
> 
> Now however there is a problem with copying the files, not all of them 
> will copy over because the connection breaks on the same file every 
> time, I finally removed the file but scp still stopped on the same file 
> despite it having been removed. The error message was fairly simple, as 
> I recall all it said on dad's laptop was that the connection was broken, 
> my computer told me nothing even with the -v switch.
> 
> john-thomas richards wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 07:49:19PM -0600, N. Thompson wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I tried running ifconfig and it gave me the same IP address that I tried 
> >>to connect to earlier with scp, scp will still not connect to the 
> >>address and pinging it shows that all the packets are lost.
> >>
> >>Thanks anyway.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >thanks anyway?  do you want me to stop trying to help you?  :-)
> >
> >is sshd running?  scp is a part of ssh so the daemon needs to be running
> >on the laptop.
> >  
> >
> 
> 
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