cp -a --- well, you learn something every day. Guess I can go home now. :)
Thx. -----Original Message----- From: Roland Dreier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 2:26 PM To: Kerl, John Cc: 'Jerry Van Baren'; 'linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org'; 'laitingwai at yahoo.com' Subject: Re: Can I run linux without a file system? Importance: High >>>>> "John" == John Kerl <Kerl> writes: John> * I could bulk-copy (cp -R) from $xroot to the filesystem John> image, *but* you can't cp around the files in /dev. The John> script below is hackish in that I list out all the John> subdirectories in $xroot except /dev and copy them, then John> populate /dev using the mkdevs script (included after John> mkramdisk). (It would be more elegant to use find with grep John> -v /dev.) cp -a works like cp -R except it will copy /dev and symlinks properly. Best, Roland ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
