Re: debian to debian

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Wed, 7 May 1997, Nils Rennebarth wrote:

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> On Wed, 7 May 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> >On Wed, 7 May 1997, A. M. Varon wrote:
> >> Could anyone give me some tips to copy (everything) a 1.2 gb of debian to
> >> another harddisk of 3.5 gb?
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> >Mount the new disk on, say /mnt and:
> >
> >	cp -a -x / /mnt
> >
> If you really wish to copy everything and have spread the old installation
> over several partitions you need to repeat this for all partitions of
> course.
> 
Nope, just remove the -x option and all partitions will be copied to the
mount point.

Luck,

Dwarf
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