My understanding was that slack was one of the least noobie friendly
distros out there, yet you do not seem to know so fairly basic command
line stuff (cp, mkdir, mount, and rmdir are normally fairly basic, as
are /etc/fstab's IMHO). My understanding was that a tarball was the
most you got for a package and that you had to compile most everything
myself.
Was I way wrong?
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:19:16 -0700, Siri Amrit Kaur
<
tigerflag@tigerflag.com> wrote:
> Well I do appreciate all the help. I never got to try it out, though. There
> were other problems and I didn't have time to relearn a new OS, even if it
> WAS based on Slackware. I ditched it and installed Slackware, like I should
> have done from the beginning.
>
> I'm saving these notes, though... never know when they could come in handy...
>
> Siri Amrit
>
>
>
> On Friday 24 September 2004 10:11 am, Rob Wultsch wrote:
> > Oppps.
> > cp -R /home/* /crap
> >
> > Good catch.
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:44:27 -0700 (PDT), Jeremy C. Reed
> >
> > <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> > > > In order to format it you need to do a:
> > > > su
> > > > mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda3
> > > > next you need to mount it somewhere and copy your home over:
> > > > mkdir /crap
> > > > mount /dev/hda3 /crap
> > > > cp -R /home /crap
> > >
> > > This will copy "home" directory itself. So when you later mount hda3, you
> > > will get "home/home".
> > >
> > > Maybe use a wildcard (assuming no hidden files in /home/ top level
> > > itself). Or use rsync with trailing slash for source, like:
> > >
> > > rsync -a /home/ /crap ## need slash after home
> > >
> > > Or use cpio:
> > >
> > > cd /home && find . | cpio -pm /crap
> > >
> > > (Or use tar.)
> > >
> > > > umount /crap
> > > > rmdir /crap
> > > > next you need to edit your /etc/fstab. Email that out if you need help
> > > > with that.
> > >
> > > Jeremy C. Reed
> > >
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> > >
> > >
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