Craig White wrote: >> > 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? >> >> This really needs to be nailed down so people know how to >> restore from a tar backup which is usually what you use >> if you back up running systems. > ---- > I am not speaking from first hand experience here. > > I gathered that the only thing necessary to create in /dev > is /dev/console and the rest are automatically created entries. I tried that, and it did not work - the boot hung, as when I only had an empty /dev directory. -- 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
