Re: cp binary cd to hd

2001-05-18 Thread Andreas Hatz
cp -d will work, but I reckon cp --archive (same as cp -dpR) is better for these purposes. (as always, a look at the man page is informative :) I did this exact same thing to install onto an old laptop without a cdrom drive. Only I created some virtual hosts in my apache conf file and just added t

Re: cp binary cd to hd

2001-05-18 Thread evan . day
> Question, how does a disk that can only hold 750mb of data fill a 5gb > partition? :| I'm completely at a loss. It just *seemed* so simple. Two things: 1) Lots of the files on the CD are in fact symbolic links, and when you run CP it will not copy the symlinks, but the files themselves. Chec

Re: cp binary cd to hd

2001-05-18 Thread francisco m . neto
ยป Jaye Inabnit ke6sls disse isso e eu digo aquilo: > I have 2 cdroms (one is a writer) and three 2.2.r3 binary disks I wanted to > work into an nfs for a lap top I'm putzing with. I have several 5gb > partitions on my second drive. Thought I'd just cp binary #3 disk to that > partition. I watch