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[john-thomas richards]

On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 03:55:08PM -0600, N. Thompson wrote:
> Some of you might remember back when I was trying to get the contents of 
> dad's laptop's hard drive backed up onto another computer, unfortunately 
> he decided to wait a long time before changing the distribution on it 
> and since then I've lost the backup.
> 
> I know how to copy the files over with scp however his laptop is not 
> taking an IP address, I tried assigning it one with hostname 
> 192.168.0.201 and it took the ip address but when I try to ping it no 
> connection is made. Both computers have access to the internet so I 
> don't know what the problem could be.
> 
> The laptop is running Debian woody, I've also got a SLAX live Cd that 
> should have worked on it but version of LILO it uses to boot didn't want 
> to run properly, I have no idea what to do now so I'm hoping some of you 
> will have ideas.

knowing it connects to the network is good information.  you have gotten
much better at asking questions!

since the laptop is connected to the network and does not respond at
that particular ip address (via ping), i suggest verifying the ip
address with ifconfig.  perhaps you are not actually changing the ip
address as you think.  i do not think the 'hostname' command changes the
ip address (i may be wrong).
-- 
john-thomas
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