Re: Problem duplicating system

1998-10-20 Thread Andy Spiegl
According to Ole J. Tetlie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not sure if the cp on the floppies is different from the normal cp. Have you tried 'cp -a source destination'? Unfortunately it is very different. It can hardly do anything. According to cp -h it accepts -r for recursive copying, but I didn't

Problem duplicating system

1998-10-19 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! I got a problem here without a solution. (as usual) I want to duplicate a debian system from one (remote) pc to a new one. So I made a cd-image on a jaz drive medium and had it send to me via normal mail. I booted the new machine with the rescue floppy and went through the install menus up

Re: Problem duplicating system

1998-10-19 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Spiegl) | | I could not figure out how to copy the contents from /cdrom to /target. | The simple cp on the root image couldn't do it. The simple tar star | I didn't know how to use (is there any documentation anywhere) and | trying to use the cp command on the cd-image