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Re: Making the Win95->Linux transition

Geoff Smith
Fri, 2 Oct 1998 00:05:46 -0700

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> From: Vincent Janelle <
>
> To: R Garth Wood <
>
> Cc: Geoff Smith <
>; vanlug@gweep.bc.ca
> Subject: Re: Making the Win95->Linux transition
> Date: Thursday, October 01, 1998 9:51 PM
>
> *Cough*
>
> You asked how much it would take to install debian. Not source, your
> personal files, staroffice... Shall I continue? :)
>
> I suggest going through and deleting old source trees, cd /usr/src/linux
> && make clean, etc.
>
> 872167 .
>
> Thats just my home dir.
>
> /dev/hda3 1950050 1722615 126635 93% /
>
> Thats my entire linux partition.

I would like to thank everyone for their help. It has been *extremely*
useful. I am almost done... I used FIPS, and it worked!(much to my
surprise) I fdisked the new partition (/dev/hda4), and mkfs'ed it. Then I
changed fstab so I mounted the new partition as "/usr2." I used the line:

/dev/hda4 /usr ext2 defaults 0 1

Is that right? What does it mean when I set <dump> to 0 instead of 1?
Then I typed:

cd /usr
cp -R * /usr2

What I was trying to do is copy everything from /usr to /usr2. After
comparing the two, I think some things were not copied, especially files
that begin with "@". Am I doing something wrong? Also, I got the
following warning:

cp: lib/perl5/i386-linux/5.00307/asm-i386/asm-i386 : Too many levels of
symbolic links

What should I do about that? (and what does it mean)

Final question: once I have copied everything from /usr2 to /usr, how do I
rename the folders so that /usr2 becomes /usr, so I can then delete the
original /usr. (yes, this is a very newbie-esque question, I don't know how
to rename a folder...)

thanks again,

Geoff Smith