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Re: [PLUG] copying a complete system to new HD
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Not to keep beating a dead horse, but... :)
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Jason Staloff wrote:
>MAKEDEV does not appear to be able to create the device files anywhere
>but /dev. The place where I need them wouldn't show up in that
Hmm... I wonder if one could do a chroot after everything else is
copied... "chroot /mnt/ MAKEDEV"....
Of course, you could also fire up vi and do a ":%s/\/dev/\/mnt&/g" on
another copy of the script, say, MAKENEWDEV...
>In the end I just used tar.
Ah, well, what counts is that it was accomplished, right? :)
TMTOWTDI is the Perl slogan, but it fits Unix equally well.
>Thanks!
Glad to be of some help.
Bill
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