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I need some help.

When I installed my latest InfoMagic Slackware I did some on a smaller
sort of catch all partition that was a DOS partition.  I changed it to a
linux native to do this.  After succesful instalation and copying what I
want form the older linux partition, I now want to replace the old linux
on that partition, which is bigger, with the new linux installation.

I stupidly tried cp without thinging about links and mounted device
files and got a ton of complaints from cp.

So, how can I do it as painlessly a possible?

And yes, I do know to go and change my fstab to have the '/' mounted on
the new partition.

Jeff Pierce

1. boot linux (duh)
2. make sure the drive you're copying to is linux native & ext2fs
3. make a directory for the drive you want to copy to and mount it on
that directory (make the directory the lowest in your directory list
like /1 or something so you won't get a recursive copy of the copy of
the copy).
4. from the directory you want to copy from: cp -dpvxR * /1
5. it'll *on /proc
6. log to another console and kill it when it chokes
7. go back to the first console and finish up the same way with /usr
/var & vmlinuz
8. No guarantees but it worked just fine for me - Best of luck