Mark Twain wrote:
Hello Paul,

How would I carry the file from
the 8200 to the 8500?

Also the 8200 is 32 bit and the
8500 is 64bit. Wouldn't that present
some problems?

Thanks,
Robert

Presents no problem at all.

"Burning an ISO" is just "Burning an ISO"

Install the burning software, and use it.

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There are two ways to get a file from the 8200
to the 8500

1) Windows File sharing.

2) Use a USB Flash drive ($5 to $20 or so).

If you had three disk drives

a) Boot drive for 8200
b) Boot drive for 8500
c) Data drive with movies on it

you could move the third drive, the data drive,
from one machine to the other. That's if you did
not want to run out and buy a USB flash drive.
You could move a hard drive, one containing "rescue.iso"
on it, to the other machine by hand.

It's a crappy solution, but its free (as long as
you have a spare hard drive).

The other issue, is the 8200 might have USB 1.1 and
only transfer files at 1 megabyte per second. If you
use the USB flash key in such a case, it will take
a bit more than three minutes to put the 200MB rescue.iso
file on the USB stick. I have an old Apple G4 Macintosh
like this, and using the USB 1.1 port on that machine is
extremely annoying. But the machine does have a good
DVD burner in it.

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General rules of thumb for Windows file sharing.

1) Set the value of workgroup = "WORKGROUP"
All machines should belong to the same fake domain.
2) Use user accounts having the same userid and password.
That's in case you receive a password prompt. For example,
if one machine has userid "Bob" and the other machine has
"Robert", that's not the best setup possible. It takes
some forethought, someone warning you about this, to make
the best account choices when first setting up a computer.
A few of my machines having the same account, was purely
an accident on my part. I never planned ahead for this.

Setting up file sharing is a pain in the ass. Microsoft
has tried to fix this on more modern OSes, with HomeGroup,
but since people don't normally have machines uniformly with
exactly the same OS release loaded on the, it's pretty hard
to use that as an option. What works, if one machine is
Windows 7 and the other is WinXP, is to use Workgroup.

And since I've had a fair amount of trouble (on occasion)
getting this stuff to work, I can't honestly promote file
sharing as a solution for everyone. My last remaining problem
here with it, is certain from-to paths not running at
consistent speeds. Sometimes moving a file from A - B happens
at 20MB/sec, while B - A runs at 80MB/sec (on a GbE network).
And I can't figure out what is wrong with it. But at least
I can still copy stuff. Frequently, if I'm moving a terabyte
of data, I can't afford for it to run at 20MB/sec, and that
makes the bug really really annoying, whatever it is.
(I end up walking the disk drive over to the other computer.)
If WinPCAP is running, capturing packets, magically
the transfer rate doubles to 40MB/sec, which is a hint
as to the nature of the bug. I just don't know what it means.

So while you can attempt to set up Windows File Sharing for
yourself, I won't always be able to supply the right helpful
hints to fixing it. I have enough trouble myself.

Paul