How to copy a Fedora-4 system? Again!

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sun Apr 9 14:08:20 UTC 2006


> So my query is: how exactly should one copy a Fedora-4 system
> to another partition?

I asked this question a couple of days ago,
and received quite a lot of responses.

However, I tried out all the suggestions,
and none of them worked,
which leads me to think that none of the "advisors"
had actually tested their advice.

I should say that dd is not appropriate
since the source is not all in one partition,
as perhaps I should have made clear;
/usr , /usr/share and /usr/local are all in separate partitions,
although I planned to have one large / partition for the new system
(using an old Windows partition for this purpose).

The problem, as I see it, is: which directories should one exclude?
In particular, if I copied /dev then the system booted,
but there were a number of errors reported during the boot,
and a number of services did not start.
If I didn't copy /dev the re-boot seemed to hang when init starts.

Has anyone actually made a copy of an FC-4 system with success,
using tar, cp -a, rsync or anything similar?
If so, which directories did you exclude?







 
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