I've moved my old system over to a new hard drive. I thought I was
fairly meticulous in copying things over (compared all permissions,
ownerships, links and other special files between the two file systems). I
edited lilo.conf and fstab, then shutdown, changed the drives master/slave
G. Crimp wrote:
I've moved my old system over to a new hard drive. I thought I was
fairly meticulous in copying things over (compared all permissions,
ownerships, links and other special files between the two file systems). I
edited lilo.conf and fstab, then shutdown, changed the
VHS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
thenUnable to open an initial console
Looks like /dev/tty0 isn't there.
Are use sure you did copy the devices correctly (cp does not copy
devices correctly, use tar or cpio).
Dirk
Or the permissions aren't set right.
Taren wrote:
VHS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
thenUnable to open an initial console
Looks like /dev/tty0 isn't there.
Are use sure you did copy the devices correctly (cp does not copy
devices correctly, use tar or cpio).
Or the permissions aren't
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Dirk Bonne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They should with tar. e.g.:
tar cf - . | (cd somewhere; tar xvf -)
Of course, you must set umask to 000 beforehand
Or use the p option with tar when you unpack i.e. tar xpvf -
Mike.
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On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 02:58:58PM +0200, Dirk Bonne wrote:
G. Crimp wrote:
I've moved my old system over to a new hard drive. I thought I was
fairly meticulous in copying things over (compared all permissions,
ownerships, links and other special files between the two file
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Dirk Bonne wrote:
Taren wrote:
[snip]
Or the permissions aren't set right. I've found that when copying files
from /dev, the permissions rarely stay the way they were originally
They should with tar. e.g.:
tar cf - . | (cd somewhere;
On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 05:58:46AM -0700, Taren wrote:
VHS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
thenUnable to open an initial console
Looks like /dev/tty0 isn't there.
Are use sure you did copy the devices correctly (cp does not copy
devices correctly, use
There's no need to do that. Just cd /dev (or wherever your dev dir is),
and type ./MAKEDEV *. That should recreate almost all the devices, with the
correct permissions, afaik.
Perhaps I should just cd /mnt/dev; rm * and then remake the device
files. I've read about a command to make
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