On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, David L. Johnson wrote: > Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > Just wanted to warn you that cp copies symbolic links as real files.
> Oops. Another gotcha. Is there a flag to cp to preserve links as > links? The disadvantage of making a beeg tarfile is that it will take > up a lot of room, so you need to have 3x(distribution size) available to > do it that way. I once copied an entire Linux installation without any trouble using cp -dpR The -d takes care of the symbolic links, -p preserves permissions, timestamps and so on. I think you can do the same with just the -a option. BTW: I use Loadlin to boot Linux, not LILO. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Steven Bolt # popular science monthly KIJK # ------------------------------------------------------------------------
