copying Knoppix to Hard Drive

**beajedi** · 05-29-2003, 09:01 PM

I'm copying knoppix from the CD onto the hard drive, according to the remastering Howto,

but I'm getting error messages from the terminal.

It says "cp: cannot create symbolic link '/mnt/....blahblahblah/blah' : Operation not permitted."

Is this normal, or am I doing something wrong?

**adam0ski** · 05-29-2003, 09:39 PM

go to http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/HdInstallHowTo

**beajedi** · 05-29-2003, 09:58 PM

i'm not trying to install it to my hard drive. I am remastering it. To do that, I copied the CD to my Hard drive.

**eadz** · 05-29-2003, 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by beajedi

i'm not trying to install it to my hard drive. I am remastering it. To do that, I copied the CD to my Hard drive.

I think you may need to be root.

**beajedi** · 05-29-2003, 10:05 PM

I am root when I do it, that's the thing.

So theres something wrong when it cannot create symbolic links when I copy to the hard drive?

In addition, it also says "failed to preserve ownership" and "cannot create special file"

**eadz** · 05-29-2003, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by beajedi

I am root when I do it, that's the thing.

So theres something wrong when it cannot create symbolic links when I copy to the hard drive?

In addition, it also says "failed to preserve ownership" and "cannot create special file"

You are using a linux filesystem to copy to? Not fat32 or something?

**beajedi** · 05-29-2003, 10:29 PM

yes, its a linux filesystem as well. The thing is that a lot of files do get copied, but a whole mess of them come up with the error.

Symbolic link errors aside, I can't chroot to my mnt/hda2/KNOPPIX directory.

it goes "chroot: /bin/bash: No such file or directory"

But I can chroot to /KNOPPIX

what's up wit dat?

**garyng** · 05-30-2003, 04:33 PM

what copy command did you use ?

cp -dRp

I usually use rsync -a or tar for bulk copy.

**beajedi** · 05-30-2003, 08:38 PM

I followed the Remaster HOWTO (available on this website)

As root, I typed this in:

"cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/hda2/knx/source/knoppix/"

**Wakko** · 05-30-2003, 08:54 PM

Didn't know cp would recreate symbolic links... Maybe I'm too stuck in UNIX. Normally I'd have to tar it then untar to location I want..

From what I've always known tar will recreate the links, cp will convert the links to files.

Again I'm more UNIX than Linux...