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Re: Installing pure64 from scratch



On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 17:56, Josh Hansen wrote:
> First I extract the tarball using tar -xvjf
> Then I enter the directory created and copy the directories using cp -r 
> ./* /mnt/debian64
> Perhaps there is a permissions preservation problem?

tar is way better than cp at this sort of task. is there some reason why
you can't do this:

cd mnt
tar -xvjpf /PATH/file.tar.bz
mv NEW_DIR debian64

-s

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