[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Scheetz) wrote on 10.04.96 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Two things you will need to do. When you tar the system, you will want to > use two options. First you want the option that forces tar to follow all > symlinks. Second you want the option that maintains the leading slash on > all path names. You will need to look these up, as I don't remember what > their option letters are. In that situation, I'd rather not use these options. After all, you want as perfect a copy as possible. The first option makes it an imperfect copy (much larger, in fact, and may break some things), the second makes it hard to do a copy in the first place. MfG Kai
