On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 11:26:32PM -0500,
Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to the few replies, I got it copied, however the links are not
quite working the same. On my system, the floppy and cd-rom links pop
open a gmc windows open to the correct paths, however, it does not mount
I installed potato from scratch on a friends machine, and they had nifty
cdrom and floppy shortcuts that I did not have. So I, since I had their
harddrive in my machine, tried to copy -r their .gnome-desktop. After
it started filling up about a gig, I stopped it, and had to become root
and do a
On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 07:46:27PM -0600, Aaron Solochek wrote:
harddrive in my machine, tried to copy -r their .gnome-desktop. After
it started filling up about a gig, I stopped it, and had to become root
try cp -dR instead of just -R. That will preserve links as links for
right or
.gnome-desktop has a link in it (Home Directory) that points to your home
directory (in which is located .gnome-desktop in which there is a link to
your home directory ad infinitum). that's why it recurses forever
use tar instead to copy the directory because it will not follow links.
On Thu, 23
Thanks to the few replies, I got it copied, however the links are not
quite working the same. On my system, the floppy and cd-rom links pop
open a gmc windows open to the correct paths, however, it does not mount
the relavent device. And the little menus you get when you right click on
them are
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