cp: omitting directory ‘/home/user/’
That happens because you did not use the option --recursive (-r):
$ cp -r /home/user /computer/media/user/TOSHIBA
But you had actually better use option --archive (-a):
$ cp -a /home/user /computer/media/user/TOSHIBA
'info cp' explains those options:
`-a'
`--archive'
Preserve as much as possible of the structure and attributes of the
original files in the copy (but do not attempt to preserve internal
directory structure; i.e., `ls -U' may list the entries in a copied
directory in a different order). Try to preserve SELinux security
context and extended attributes (xattr), but ignore any failure to
do that and print no corresponding diagnostic. Equivalent to `-dR
--preserve=all' with the reduced diagnostics.
`-R'
`-r'
`--recursive'
Copy directories recursively. By default, do not follow symbolic
links in the source; see the `--archive' (`-a'), `-d',
`--dereference' (`-L'), `--no-dereference' (`-P'), and `-H'
options. Special files are copied by creating a destination file
of the same type as the source; see the `--copy-contents' option.
It is not portable to use `-r' to copy symbolic links or special
files. On some non-GNU systems, `-r' implies the equivalent of
`-L' and `--copy-contents' for historical reasons. Also, it is
not portable to use `-R' to copy symbolic links unless you also
specify `-P', as POSIX allows implementations that dereference
symbolic links by default.
I got a credit card sized usb "device" (or "mock device") with my FSF
membership that says "GNU/Linux Inside!" and I've plugged this credit card
into several computers and got nothing.
This is a Live Trisquel system (including the installer)! Once plugged, you
must reboot on the USB key. Some key pressed right after the computers powers
up may provides you boot options, otherwise configure the boot order in the
BIOS/UEFI so that the USB key has precedence over the hard drive. Like lembas
wrote, you can backup from the Live system using its graphical file manager
(the partitions on the internal and external hard drives will be icons on the
desktop). After that, another icon proposes you to install Trisquel. Unmount
and unplug the external hard drive first so that you do not install Trisquel
on it by mistake!
