Yeah, that is what we are looking at now. It seems to be working well. Our concern is that the Sun systems are really really full and may not have enough space for the tarballs. I think that we can work around that by removing the boot images from /tftpboot if necessary (just bring them with us in case there is a problem and we have to leave the Sun in place).
"Lorris J. Woods" wrote: > > Janyne I would use tar to move the data, they are compatible across both > platforms. > > --On Friday, March 15, 2002 7:20 AM -0500 Janyne Kizer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have some Solaris servers we are migrationt to Red Hat Linux. What I > > was hoping to do is write the data that we want to move from the Solaris > > box to the new server to tape, put the tape into the Linux box and > > restore the data. There seems to be an incompatibility in the way the > > tapes are written by these to operating systems though. When we put the > > tape into the drive on the Linux server, the tape is accessed and we get > > a "file not found" error. Any pointers would be appreciated. > > -- > > > > Janyne Kizer > > CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 > > Systems Programmer Administrator I > > NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences > > Extension and Administrative Technology Services > > Phone: (919) 515-3609 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Redhat-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension and Administrative Technology Services Phone: (919) 515-3609 _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list