Okay, so I got a Debian box recently already set up with Woody and a few other programs. I've decided to wipe it out and install Sarge as my main OS, but would like to back up the OS as-is in case I mung anything up. I have two harddrives: one (5GB) partitioned with what I take to be the standard 15MB /boot, 100MB swap, remainingMB /. setup and another (120GB) partitioned simmilarly (15MB /boot, 100MB swap, 4900MB /., and ~115000MB /foo). I did a series of `cp -dpR`s to just copy everything over from the first drive to the second. Then I went into GRUB and /etc/fstab to make sure they're all set up right.
It starts up fine from the first drive, and the kernal starts up fine from the second, but when it comes to the login screen I can only log in as root. For the other accounts, after giving name and pass, the screen goes black for a moment (monitor lights indicate power-save mode) then it dumps me back to the login screen. If I give a bad password I just get the usual "can't authenticate" warning. Also, when I'm logged into the second drive as root trying to do `man` gives me a warning "can't create temporary filename: Permission denied". I've tried googling for the problems but couldn't find exactly these ones. Any ideas on what got lost in the transfer? ~wren __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]