From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live?
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:09:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080715080936.7aee5ebc@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g5hgun$b4h$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:43:33 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> 'cp -a' your existing / to your target / (except /dev, /sys and /proc).
> If you mounted your target / as /root/target, you do:
>
> cp -a /usr /root/hd
> (repeat this for all directories in your current /
> *EXCEPT* /dev, /proc, /sys and /lost+found)
>
> mkdir /root/hd/dev
> mkdir /root/hd/proc
> mkdir /root/hd/sys
Or replace all this with one command
cp -al / /root/hd
or, my preference
rsync -ax / /root/hd/
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-15 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-15 5:31 [gentoo-user] gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live? Michael Higgins
2008-07-15 5:39 ` Robert Bridge
2008-07-15 6:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-15 6:47 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-15 6:51 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-15 7:09 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2008-07-15 7:42 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-15 7:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-15 15:17 ` Michael Higgins
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