RE: Instaling Hamm.

[Liran Zvibel <liranz@math.tau.ac.il>]

Well this is interesting, but I don't have enough space for this, thanks,
Liran Zvibel. 
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On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Patrick Ouellette wrote:

> I've found it comforting to have a backup of the system
> just in case.....
> 
> As Will states, its not that difficult.
> 
> I use the following sequence:
> 
> create new partition
> make the ext2 filesystem on the new partition
> mount the partition on /mnt/<whatever>
> cp -a /<source>/* /mnt/<whatever>
> su -c "rm -R /<source>/*"       # be sure you want to delete everything
> enter the root password         # you were sure weren't you?
> umount /mnt/<whatever>
> mount new partition on /<source>
> put entry in /etc/fstab so the system will mount it on reboot
> 


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