Erm.. I may be talking(writing) rubbish, but is it a good idea to copy your home directory to a FAT partition? You will not be able to save the same file permissions and ownership. When the files are copied back again it will be a complete mish mash won't it?
If you can boot from floppy you should be able to recover your old kernel by editing the lilo.conf file and putting the correct symlinks in /boot If you have totally trashed your old kernel you should be able to reinstall it without having to do a new install. The recent article in Mandrake security tells you everything you need to know. http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/magic.php HTH Derek On Saturday 08 December 2001 22:48, you wrote: > Hi, > I have decided to do a re-install since my kernel mishap. > I can get into my existing linux installation with the installation cd > #1 and 'rescue'. Once at a command prompt, I would like to copy the entire > /home/bill directory to /mnt/windows and then use it to re-establish my > data after a fresh install. > When I try a cp /home/bill /mnt/windows I continue to get a 'omitting > directory' message and only files in the root of the directory are copied. > Is there a way that I can copy the entire directory and maintain the > directory structure? > > Also, I tried to do a cp --help but the messages scrolled off the top > of the screen....what is the command to halt information a page at a time? > > Thanks to all for helping, > Bill W.
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