OK I gave up on the rw option for the iso mounted via loop device :(
Now I am trying to get a good copy of the entire directory tree from the
iso to another partition. I did from the root of the iso:
cp -pdR * /new/location
It appeared to work but a diff /old/location/ /new/location is giving me
so gaff about files that are special block devices in one tree and
special block devices on the other. Yeah I know it looks the same huh?
There were also some file not founds in misc/src/trees/initrd/bin and
sbin (bin is symlinked to sbin) and some more misc/src/anaconda/
somewhere.
The first problems are that several files in the sbin dir are linked to
loader which does not exist. Problem? I guess not since that is the
wayn it is in the iso and I have done a bunch of installs of various
types from this iso.
I hate to spend a bunch of time doing the updates I am trying to do just
to find out something is hosed so I am ftping the directory structure
now from a mirror. I sure would like to use the iso since I can do the
old checksum and know that noone has dinked with file way down deep
somewhere.
Is there a better way to extract the files from the iso that to do the
cp deal? I am just not comfortable with the device files messages. The
-dRp options were the best I could seen from reading the man page. I
would show the specific messages from the diff,but I am using that term
to get the dir structure now.
Any help gladly accepted.
Bret
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