On 31/01/2009, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: > On 01/31/2009 02:57 AM, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> > clone new system to old-root-device > > cp? I'd be interested in this as well. I just recently tried cloning a filesystem using cp and it worked except I was unable to su - to root. I could login to root directly, login under my username correctly but su - failed with something along the lines of: su: Authentication Failure I tried setting umask 0000 rsync and others but something was screwing things up, neither fs was in use (booted from live cd) but were mounted. dump / restore worked perfectly. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org