> 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? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
