Andy Dannelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have Fink and Fink Commander installed on one of my systems. Using > Fink 0.7.2 and Fink Commander 0.5.4. [...] > Now I want to put it on my system HD and on another system. Both > systems are running OS X 10.3.7 ( not updated to 10.4 yet). > > Can I just do a finder copy of the SW folder?
You're much better off using a unix-level copy, and doing it as root. Something like: old machine: sudo tar -czf ~/my-fink.tar.gz /sw [copy the tarball; finder copy is okay here] new machine: cd /; sudo tar -xzf ~/my-fink.tar.gz Most of fink is owned by user "root" by default, not necessarily by necessity, but some files really do need to be owned by root and/or may have other critical ownership and permissions flags that could get lost by a Finder copy, and may even prevent reading by the Finder at all. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
