greg@sys3.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin) (10/02/90)
Hi all,
I will be trying to upgrade from 1.3 to 1.5.10 (as well as
install Shoelace) shortly. I am wondering the best way to
do this. My plan was install disks 4 and 5 (the commands
and kernel sources) on my hard drive and apply the patches
and rebuild.
What is the best way to transfer the files from the floppies
to the hard disk. My disk partitions are referenced by
/dev/hd6 and /dev/hd7. Both are over 8 meg in size, so space
won't be a problem.
I tried:
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/hd6
/dev/hd6 was mounted to a directory that existed on /dev/hd7.
I don't think that it worked too well. /dev/hd6 seems to have
filesystem problems and the FS panics when I "cd" into certain
directories.
Any ideas on a better way to copy (or the correct way), since
"cp" does not support recursive copying.
Thanks,
--
Greg Larkin (ASIC Engineer)
Viewlogic Systems, Inc. (The CAE Company)
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-------------------------------------miquels@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg E207) (10/03/90)
In article <1990Oct1.155248@sys3.Viewlogic.COM#> greg@sys3.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin) writes: #>Hi all, #> #>I will be trying to upgrade from 1.3 to 1.5.10 (as well as #>install Shoelace) shortly. I am wondering the best way to #>do this. My plan was install disks 4 and 5 (the commands #>and kernel sources) on my hard drive and apply the patches #>and rebuild. #> #>What is the best way to transfer the files from the floppies #>to the hard disk. My disk partitions are referenced by #>/dev/hd6 and /dev/hd7. Both are over 8 meg in size, so space #>won't be a problem. #> #>I tried: #> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/hd6 #> #>/dev/hd6 was mounted to a directory that existed on /dev/hd7. #> #>I don't think that it worked too well. /dev/hd6 seems to have #>filesystem problems and the FS panics when I "cd" into certain #>directories. #> #>Any ideas on a better way to copy (or the correct way), since #>"cp" does not support recursive copying. #> #>Thanks, #>-- #>Greg Larkin (ASIC Engineer) I don't know if much people know all the flags of cpdir. I use minix 1.3, and I can just run cpdir -vms <orgdir> <destdir>. This will preserve mode, owner links utimes and create special files also. -- Mike van Smoorenburg, | Me Tarzan, miquels@htsa.aha.nl | U nix. | (citate of HT) #include <greetings.h>