On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:52:20 +0100
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:42:20 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
> > I assume you meant 'cp -ax' :P
>
> I did, it's tar that uses -l for this.
>
> > > rsync -ax / /root/hd/
> >
> > Well, /root/hd is empty so there's
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:42:20 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> I assume you meant 'cp -ax' :P
I did, it's tar that uses -l for this.
> > rsync -ax / /root/hd/
>
> Well, /root/hd is empty so there's nothing to win with rsync other than
> it being slower than cp. But it does the job too, anyw
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:43:33 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
'cp -a' your existing / to your target / (except /dev, /sys and /proc).
If you mounted your target / as /root/target, you do:
cp -a /usr /root/hd
(repeat this for all directories in your current /
*EXCEPT* /d
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:43:33 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> 'cp -a' your existing / to your target / (except /dev, /sys and /proc).
>If you mounted your target / as /root/target, you do:
>
> cp -a /usr /root/hd
> (repeat this for all directories in your current /
> *EXCEPT* /dev, /proc, /
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
mount -t proc none /root/mnt/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
Bah, too much copy&paste without paying attention (it's early and no
coffee yet :P) Should of course be:
mount -t proc none /root/hd/proc
mount -o bind /dev /root/hd/dev
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Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
'cp -a' your existing / to your target / (except /dev, /sys and /proc).
If you mounted your target / as /root/target
/root/hd, but I'm sure you were able to figure out the typo in your own ;)
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Michael Higgins wrote:
So, I finally got the OK to nuke another Dell winbox. My dream is to:
* Partition the restore partition (3.6 GB) for any small linux
installation
* make that partition active, bootable, with grub installed
* reboot and ssh into that linux machine to finish by toasting
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