Hi Adam, You wrote: Adam> Adam> My friend and I have installed debian, but he has not signed up Adam> to this list. Adam> Adam> He just got a new larger hard drive for debian, and wanted to Adam> move his installed setup onto the new one. I have the old one Adam> mounted as root, and the new one mounted on '/mnt'. I have run Adam> mkfs on the new HD. Adam> Adam> I need to know how to copy the files from the old to the new, Adam> without having and links destroyed, and without entering the Adam> neverending loop with regards to '/mnt/mnt/mnt/...'. All Adam> attempts that I have done have resulted in files that links Adam> pointed being copies, instead of just making a link, and having Adam> '/mnt' copied recursively. Adam> Adam> Thanks ahead of time for your help. Adam>
'cp -a' will do it i.e do the folowing: ----------- cd / cp -a boot bin sbin usr dev etc home lib root sbin usr var mnt/ mkdir /mnt/proc mkdir /mnt/tmp ----------- hope that helps borik d879e90x8 P.S Don't try to cp /proc just create it in /mnt -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]