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From: miquels@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg E207)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Upgrading from 1.3 to 1.5.10 on HD
Keywords: upgrade
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Date: 3 Oct 90 09:11:59 GMT
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In article <1990Oct1.155248@sys3.Viewlogic.COM#> greg@sys3.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin) writes:
#>Hi all,
#>
#>I will be trying to upgrade from 1.3 to 1.5.10 (as well as
#>install Shoelace) shortly.  I am wondering the best way to
#>do this.  My plan was install disks 4 and 5 (the commands
#>and kernel sources) on my hard drive and apply the patches
#>and rebuild.
#>
#>What is the best way to transfer the files from the floppies
#>to the hard disk.  My disk partitions are referenced by
#>/dev/hd6 and /dev/hd7.  Both are over 8 meg in size, so space
#>won't be a problem. 
#>
#>I tried:
#>	  dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/hd6
#>
#>/dev/hd6 was mounted to a directory that existed on /dev/hd7.
#>
#>I don't think that it worked too well.  /dev/hd6 seems to have
#>filesystem problems and the FS panics when I "cd" into certain
#>directories.
#>
#>Any ideas on a better way to copy (or the correct way), since
#>"cp" does not support recursive copying.
#>
#>Thanks,
#>--
#>Greg Larkin (ASIC Engineer)

I don't know if much people know all the flags of cpdir.
I use minix 1.3, and I can just run cpdir -vms <orgdir> <destdir>.
This will preserve mode, owner links utimes and create special files also.


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