At 09:03 + 1998-02-08, David Maslen wrote:
In the past I used a rescue disk, called I think rescue that I got from
the linux archives at sunsite. It's probably a boit out of date by now.
I really should learn how to make my own rescue disk, but it would
be nice if there was a debian one that
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I'm having a nightmare trying to copy my root file system to its new
home. If I mount the original as / and the new one as /mnt, both
cp -ax /* /mnt
and
( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt;
I'm having a nightmare trying to copy my root file system to its
new home. If I mount the original as / and the new one as /mnt,
both
cp -ax /* /mnt
and
( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - )
attempt to copy /mnt anyway, and /proc too. ie, the -x and -l switches
to cp and tar
On Sat, Feb 07, 1998 at 11:57:21PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
tar is broken to stdout in bo, you need to get the tar in bo-unstable for
it to work.
This is on my hamm system, up to date as of about a month ago. Any
ideas why that doesn't work?
cp will never work ... it breaks when you get to
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
: I'm having a nightmare trying to copy my root file system to its
: new home. If I mount the original as / and the new one as /mnt,
: both
:
: cp -ax /* /mnt
:
: and
:
: ( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - )
:
: attempt to copy /mnt
Hamish Moffatt writes:
I would do it with the rescue disk, mounting the two partitions
as /mnt and /mnt2, except that the rescue disk (poorly named?)
seems to have a cut down cp with only -r, and no tar!
I found the 'rescue' disk a bit lacking in this respect. Personally I would
have
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I'm having a nightmare trying to copy my root file system to its new
home. If I mount the original as / and the new one as /mnt, both
cp -ax /* /mnt
and
( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - )
attempt to copy /mnt anyway, and /proc
On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 10:45:04PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
cp -ax /* /mnt
( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - )
that's because you're TELLING cp and tar to copy /mnt. * matches
everything, remember...so cp -af /* /mnt means copy everything in /
(including /mnt) to /mnt.
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Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm having a nightmare trying to copy my root file system to its
new home. If I mount the original as / and the new one as /mnt,
both
cp -ax /* /mnt
and
( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - )
attempt to copy /mnt
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I'm having a nightmare trying to copy my root file system to its
new home. If I mount the original as / and the new one as /mnt,
both
cp -ax /* /mnt
and
( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - )
attempt to copy /mnt anyway, and /proc too. ie, the -x and
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Sun, Feb 08, 1998 at 10:45:04PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
cp -ax /* /mnt
( cd /; tar clvf - * ) | ( cd /mnt; tar xf - )
that's because you're TELLING cp and tar to copy /mnt. * matches
everything, remember...so cp -af /* /mnt means
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