On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 12:44 +0100, Kwpolska wrote: >> It's an OEM, I'm changing PCs, so it won't work. I am reinstalling >> Windows anyway, because using XP on such machine (3-core AMD Athlon >> 3.4GHz, GeForce GTS450, USB3.0, 4GB RAM) would be a stupid idea. > > Did you test wine or virtualization? > I'm using Linux only, but I'm aware that sometimes Windows is needed. > Btw. I would like to use wine for a KORG nanoKONTROL, hardware to > control audio apps on Linux, but it would be nice to run the original > software to program the KORG device. And since I won an iPad 2 I > currently try to get an Apple thingy run on wine, unfortunately there > are still issues with wine for Arch on my machine. I noticed that even > stuff that at work run on Windows, often run at Linux too, e.g. when I > worked for Brauner microphones Eagle was software we look at, such > amazing software is available for Linux too. Perhaps you've got good > reasons to install Windows, if not, try wine or try to install Windows > to a virtual machine, since this at least could save the trouble to > reboot. Have you ever attempted to play a game through wine or a virtual machine? Then you should know why I am installing Windows that way and why does it get over half of the drive (yes, I'm that crazy) > > - Ralf > > PS, not important: >> Okay then, I don't think I'd get more responses than that. I think >> I'll choose C Anthony Risinger's solution, because I trust rsync more >> than regular cp. > > Just to copy and not to sync, they're doing the same. While I haven't > thought about links, since it's not an issue on my machine, cp -pr isn't > optimal, as somebody mentioned cp -a is the way to go. IMO rsync has to > many options that could cause issues, when new to rsync. I suspect that > globbing will be the same as it is for cp. Anyway, both are better than > dd for your task. > > I'm not new to rsync, if you care. -- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 | Arch Linux x86_64, zsh, mutt, vim. # vim:set textwidth=70:
