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Fallen Kell Offline

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Posted: June 09 2005,16:47

Just thought I would make a suggestion, as this is a change I needed to make.

Make the following change to the frugal_install.sh

Replace the following line:
cp -af $IMAGE/* /mnt/$TARGET

With:
(cd $IMAGE; tar cf - ./*) | (cd /mnt/$TARGET; tar xvf -)

There are a number of good reasons for doing so, but the main reason being the fact that tar keeps track of the entire archive and knows if something was not completely transfered.

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Posted: June 09 2005,17:42

This might also be a good idea with the regular install, but I personally do not use that option (yet at least).

Oh, one other thing, this will actually print out the files as they get copied, so you get a rough idea that it is doing what it should be as well.