How Do I Produce a GUI (or at least file manager)?

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Hi,

This is a weird situation!

I was given an old server to be dedicated as a music streaming device. The server has Fedora version:

4.13.16-203.fc25.x86_64

It turns out it has the wrong streaming software and I need to install the one I want - DAphile. The install is performed via an iso, which erases the drive. Now, the drive presently holds 1TB of music files and naturally I want to preserve them. I need to transfer them over to an external hard drive before installing DAphile.

Well, presently, the only display I have is a terminal. It fills up the entire screen. (The server is used headless via a UI that connects via http protocol.)

Is there a way I can “tell” my server to produce the file manager GUI? Or, if not, to transfer the files from the terminal command line?

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You could copy the data with rsync from the CLI pretty easily. If they are in the same directory, rsync can clone the whole directory to the external drive.

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Oh wow - that’s fantastic!

Thanks!

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rsync would be the recommended way, but you could also fire up a TUI (A text user interface) file manager if you wanted to do it manually and re-arrange stuff. ranger, yazi, nnn, and many more.

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Midnight Commander is a fabulous TUI file manager as well.

sudo dnf install mc

and start it with ‘mc’ at the command line

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