On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Larry W wrote: > If this new machine is to replace nearly exactly the old PC, I'd archive > everything in /etc that has a modification date newer than about April > 2009. I'd save apt/*, fstab (for one-off and remote mount defines), > backup settings, fonts, sudoers, group, hosts.*, and so on.
Well, I've been check-mated by xubuntu. I tarred the 11M /etc directory on the old Toshiba Tecra onto a USB flash drive (1.3M file size). When I connect the flash drive to the new Toshiba Satellite it shows the files group as 'root'. If I mount it on my server, the file is owned by rshepard.users, but on her new machine it's owned by pamela.root. Sigh. I cannot copy the file to the new machine. It won't copy to her home directory (permission denied), and I cannot copy it to / since there is not yet a root password. What a hassle! Even working in a virtual console using 'sudo' I cannot copy the file. Is there a way for me to create a password for root so I can su to that account and move the file to / for untarring into /etc/? Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
