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RE: Getting files on and off Indy - mamed - 01-03-2022
Go into system settings click on networking check dhcp bam your connected. Go on pc download FileZilla type in ip of your workstation and the username and password doesn’t work with root so you need an alternate also doesn’t work without a password
RE: Getting files on and off Indy - weblacky - 01-03-2022
(01-03-2022, 06:44 AM)mamed Wrote: Go into system settings click on networking check dhcp bam your connected. Go on pc download FileZilla type in ip of your workstation and the username and password doesn’t work with root so you need an alternate also doesn’t work without a password
I second this! FTP + client Filezilla on your PC/MacOS works very well! FTP is pretty much already running, this is the simplest solution that works without crashing or incompatibilities (NFS, SMB, etc...crash city for me).
RE: Getting files on and off Indy - Shiunbird - 01-03-2022
I've been very successfully using TrueNAS between Windows, Macs and all sorts of UNIX stuff for a few years - it's beauty.
RE: Getting files on and off Indy - TommyBoy - 01-18-2022
I actually just recently got SCSI2SD because the cable in the wall between my router and the work room computers broke. I switched to wireless on my windows machine, but as for the Indy, there's no networking unless i move it to the room where the router is and hook everything up there. I installed the SCSI2SD as a second hard drive, put some .txt files on it, but when i put the sd card in my PC, it's unreadable. is there any way to retrieve the files? I've seen other threads where people install old versions of Linux on virtual machines and get it off that way. Also... there was a guy who managed to set up an SD card so that he could put it in his Amiga using SCSI2SD and then just view the files on Mac/Windows. Here's the link for that one. https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1823
RE: Getting files on and off Indy - callahan - 01-18-2022
(01-18-2022, 08:18 PM)TommyBoy Wrote: I actually just recently got SCSI2SD because the cable in the wall between my router and the work room computers broke. I switched to wireless on my windows machine, but as for the Indy, there's no networking unless i move it to the room where the router is and hook everything up there. I installed the SCSI2SD as a second hard drive, put some .txt files on it, but when i put the sd card in my PC, it's unreadable. is there any way to retrieve the files? I've seen other threads where people install old versions of Linux on virtual machines and get it off that way. Also... there was a guy who managed to set up an SD card so that he could put it in his Amiga using SCSI2SD and then just view the files on Mac/Windows. Here's the link for that one. https://www.amigalove.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1823
The problem is that Irix uses a file system that isn't support by Windows (at all) or Linux (any recent distro).
As a start -- what OS version is on your Indy? If it's 5.3, you can just use efs2tar to convert the entire contents of the disk to a tar. But this only works to get files off the Indy. Two way transfer would require much more work, like getting a sufficiently old BSD distro working or compiling your own. If it's 6.2, you're sort of out of luck -- to my knowledge there isn't a good XFS V1 solution. If it's 6.5, you can just use the method linked a few posts above.
Note, however, that all of these methods are going to be much more work than just fixing networking if you're main goal is two-way file transfer.
RE: Getting files on and off Indy - Raion - 01-18-2022
Yeah, viewing XFS volumes on Windows will never work. It's not the same as an Amiga where you have WinUAE and stuff. It's not an option.
RE: Getting files on and off Indy - TommyBoy - 01-19-2022
After spending the entire day today fussing with this, I actually found a way to get the files off the SD card using a virtual machine. I didn't need to make a VMDK or convert the SD card to a .img file or anything. I'll post a new thread showing the exact steps and exact commands later.
RE: Getting files on and off Indy - Raion - 01-19-2022
Using a Linux VM or...?