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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Jason Staloff wrote: >When I copy everything but /dev to the new drive and try to boot, it >starts to boot off the drive but it's unable to initialize a console. That's to be expected if there's no /dev/ directory with the proper device files in it, since Un*x represents everything as a file. >Tar seems to work: I just tried it on my notebook and I got an archive >with my /dev in it. I'll try it on the new drive when I get home. It seems to work for me: bj@morpheus:/$ sudo mkdir newdev bj@morpheus:/$ sudo cp -a /dev/ /newdev/ bj@morpheus:/$ diff <(ls /dev/) <(ls /newdev/dev/) bj@morpheus:/$ Doing an 'ls -l' in place of the simple 'ls' in the above sequence only shows differences in the modification times of symbolic links. I noticed that you said you were using 'cp -pdr'... note that the case of the R is quite important WRT this. Here's a snippet from the cp man page: -r copy recursively, non-directories as files WARNING: use -R instead when you might copy special files like FIFOs or /dev/zero Also note that there is generally a /dev/MAKEDEV script which will create the device files properly for you (but it takes options, and I can't advise since I've not used it; it might also be distribution dependent, but I'm not sure). Note, though, that your use of 'cp -a' is dependent upon you having a copy of GNU cp on the system on which you're working. 'cd ... && tar ...' is rather Un*x-independent. Bill -- >Ever heard of .cshrc? | "Linux means never having to delete That's a city in Bosnia. Right? | your love mail." -- Don Marti (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc | http://www.billjonas.com/ on the intuitiveness of commands.) | http://www.harrybrowne.org/ ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://plug.nothinbut.net Announcements - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug