Thomas Adam wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:46:08PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Not on _my_ computers you won't. That's a completely unreliable way of
restoring the directory.
He's chrooting into a Debian install. Enough said. It works.
Sometimes.
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Stephen Tait wrote:
At 15:46 26/08/2004, you wrote:
Not on _my_ computers you won't. That's a completely unreliable way
of restoring the directory.
Why doesn't someone read the man page for cp? It tells you how not
copy /proc.
man cp
Personally, I prefer
tar ... | tar
which seems to work far be
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:46:08PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Not on _my_ computers you won't. That's a completely unreliable way of
> restoring the directory.
He's chrooting into a Debian install. Enough said. It works.
-- Thomas Adam
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At 15:46 26/08/2004, you wrote:
Not on _my_ computers you won't. That's a completely unreliable way of
restoring the directory.
Why doesn't someone read the man page for cp? It tells you how not copy /proc.
man cp
Personally, I prefer
tar ... | tar
which seems to work far better for me than cp.
m
Thomas Adam wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:33:53PM +0100, Stephen Tait wrote:
Gak! I've just thought. What do I do with all of the weird stuff in /proc
and /dev? Will cp handle these things seamlessly, or will I have to create
/proc and /dev are virtual. What you should therefore do is
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:33:53PM +0100, Stephen Tait wrote:
> Gak! I've just thought. What do I do with all of the weird stuff in /proc
> and /dev? Will cp handle these things seamlessly, or will I have to create
/proc and /dev are virtual. What you should therefore do is omit these from
you
At 15:00 26/08/2004, you wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:03:10PM +0100, Stephen Tait wrote:
> Once all the files have done transferring, I'm guessing all I have to
do is
> do a chroot /mnt/newdrive /bin/bash, and then run the LILO thing to get
> myself a boot block in my MBR.
That'll do it. Als
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 03:03:10PM +0100, Stephen Tait wrote:
> Once all the files have done transferring, I'm guessing all I have to do is
> do a chroot /mnt/newdrive /bin/bash, and then run the LILO thing to get
> myself a boot block in my MBR.
That'll do it. Also make sure you change /etc/fs
Hi there, I just want to double check I'm going to be doing this right, or
am at least on the right track.
I've finally managed to make myself a kernel that'll boot directly offof my
3ware 9500 RAID card, but I had to make this on a regular PATA drive, since
I need to be able to install straigh
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