On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Scott Hill wrote: [ moving partitions snipped ]
: Anyway, I take off the A and use my floppy boot diskette and B and i : can logon : and seems ok. I want to boot off the hard drive so I did a /sbin/lilo. : But can't boot : off hard drive, just after the fsck check of partitions I get error : message: : "unable to open an initial console". Sounds like a missing device file. : So: is there a better way to do a clone (like a script) that i could : not find? Is there : a better way to get contents of A onto B in step 4? Did some files not : go through : by my cp method. [ Warning! You are about to invoke religious debate ] I've found that `find . -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt' works everytime device and other "strange" files included. So, to copy on filesystem to another, mount the "target" filesystem on /mnt . `cd' to the mountpoint of the source filesystem (you're moving / `cd /', /usr `cd /usr', etc.) Then run the above command. Couldn't be easier. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null