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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:00:41 -0500
From: will cunningham <willpanther@...il.com>
To: sabotage@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: starting Sabotage project/booting off the hard drive

1)
I used cp -a as root and here is one line from the output to the console I
pasted into a file which is an example of what I figured were some of the
symbolic links not being copied:

cp: cannot create symbolic link
`/mnt/sabateuring/build_sabotage/share/ca-certificates/mozilla/Verisign_Class_2_Public_Primary_Certification_Authority_-_G2.crt':
Operation not permitted

2)
As I've wiped out the Debian distro on the hard drive, I'll reload it and
get a Sabotage going again in it, and you can tell me what to to do get
that directory on and booting from my hard drive instead of sorting through
fixing the mess I've created mixing and matching.

So from having a Sabotage directory working with changeroot, I'll burn it
to a CD to make sure it's cherry, and then what should I do to my hard
drive to get it primed for my Sabotage directory?

Thanks,

Will

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Justin Cormack <
justin@...cialbusservice.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 27, 2014 2:35 PM, "will cunningham" <willpanther@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Fellow Sabateur's,
> >
> > Well I'm more of a sab looking to earn his wings, a small intro before
> getting rolling, my emails'll be technical after explaining where I'm at...
> >
> > I'm a couple months into a long term project to use Sabotage as a base
> to clean up/customize a small set of apps we use including dependencies,
> and get myself to the next level of Linux control/knowledge along the way.
> Apologies in advance that while I've used Linux since 2000, I only know
> standard distro usage for Gentoo, Arch and Debian(Lilo Grub) etc, and for
> your answers, please feel free to point me at docs to read up on, as I'm
> just learning things like inittab is just for Sysv etc.
> >
> > I'm kind of too rock for country too country for rock n roll as we've
> done things like compile our own kernel when using Gentoo, but did it in
> the most standard way(make menuconfig etc) and it's taking a while to find
> where you put the kernel etc.  I also understand that some of the things
> I'll be trying I'm a bit of a guinea pig here, but I think it'll help the
> distro to test real world usage as I get control over Sabotage.
> >
> > I've bought an Optiplex 745 here in the office for this, and in a Debian
> install I've gotten Sabotage running as both changeroot and from Qemu using
> your scripts to make a .img file.  I've never used Qemu, so this took a
> while to get handy at.
> >
> > I'm stuck trying to take the Sabotage directory I changeroot into to
> boot off the hard drive.  I copied it to a usb drive; using fdisk from an
> Arch cd I repartitioned the hard drive and loaded the Sabotage directory
> from the USB drive to /dev/sda1 and I've tried to get the MBR in proper
> Extlinux form, with different combinations of first trying to get the
> Debian install to run off Syslinux, and then using the Arch cd to tweek for
> Extlinux, but I ain't getting my Sabotage boot directory extlinux.conf file
> read when booting yet.
> >
> > Also, when copying the Sabotage directory to the USB drive I lost the
> symbolic links used(which makes sense as they're soft links).
> >
> > So what should I do next to get my Sabotage directory booting off the
> hard drive, or should I install Sabotage in  a Debian install again and
> take a different route for this?
> >
> > OK, sorry for the long email, but I wanted you to understand that I have
> no problem with loading/reloading puttering tinkering etc while we get this
> going.
> >
>
> If you are losing symlinks you are probably losing a lot more. Use "cp -a"
> or rsync to copy the files which will preserve permissions, devices. You
> need to copy as root too.
>
> Justin
>

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