Richard;
Thanks again.
Richard Adams wrote:
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> directorys such as /proc cannot be copied because they are not realy there,
> they are virtual and held in memory.
Yes, I understand that /proc is a virtual file system.
> /usr should be ok tho. read the man page for cp or mv, a beter way is to
> use tar to archive the whole lot.
>
You say it 'should' be ok. How can I be certain? What if it's not ok?
I don't want to do something that would require me to reinstall.
I read man cp and man tar, but I don't believe they address my concern
about what can and what can't be copied.
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> > Would that also work with / ?
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> Yes for most things, be carefull with symlinks tho.
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> I belive Ray has done that sort of thing personaly, i arrange mu partitions
> in such a mannor that i can reuse them after installimng another distro,
> and use the same partitions like /home /usr/src /usr/local/src on all
> distros'. i wrote a message about that yesterday.
>
> >
Yeah, I saw your message and kept it for future reference.
Sorry for all the questions. I'm not having much luck lately. I tried
to install Wine and wasn't able to do it. I tried to install ftape, and
wasn't able to do it. I'm trying to resize some of my partitions and
can't seem to be able to do it.
Frustration level is pretty high right now, but I'm not ready to go back
to OS/2 just yet. But it sure would be nice to know what I'm doing
again.
Tom (working my way back to a 10 on the newbie scale) #:o[
