[Linux] USB drive ---Yum

[kerry blalock]

Jason Alazawi wrote:
> I'm still a newbie but if you want to migrate your data then the 
> command that I would use would be:
>  
> % cp <source of data> <path of destination>
>  
> Where % is, is your command prompt.  Hope that helps!
>  
> Jason
>
>  
> On 7/25/07, *kerry blalock* <kerry@uniquewholesale.net 
> <mailto:kerry@uniquewholesale.net>> wrote:
>
>     I was able to use fdisk to format the USB drive, and it now seems
>     available as a usb devise.
>
>     aaaaaai had just updated from krud-fedora to regular Fedora Core
>     6. In
>     the older Krud from tommy.com <http://tommy.com>, he had altered
>     yum to tummyyum. I thought
>     upgrading would fix the problem, but yum still does not work. I
>     get the
>     following error when I try to upgrade:
>
>     [root@maddog1 kerryb]# yum update
>     Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>     Repository 'dag' is missing name in configuration, using id
>     Setting up Update Process
>     Setting up repositories
>     http://yum1.tummy.com/krud/fc4-security/repodata/repomd.xml:
>     [Errno 14]
>     HTTP Error 404: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:40:49 GMT
>     Server: Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)
>     Content-Length: 315
>     Connection: close
>     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>
>     Trying other mirror.
>     Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: krud-security
>
>     A few other commands are broken also, like locate, find, etc. What
>     would be the best way to move my data , under my user, to the usb
>     drive to not lose information in the subdirectories? After I do
>     this, I think I will install a clean version of FC6, or Fedora 7
>     on the hard drive.
>
>     [root@maddog1 kerryb]#
>
>
>
>
>     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     From: kerryb@basicq.com <mailto:kerryb@basicq.com>
>     To: kerry@uniquewholesale.net <mailto:kerry@uniquewholesale.net>
>     Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:51:13 -0400 (EDT)
>     Subject: yum
>     [root@maddog1 kerryb]# yum update
>     Loading "installonlyn" plugin
>     Repository 'dag' is missing name in configuration, using id
>     Setting up Update Process
>     Setting up repositories
>     http://yum1.tummy.com/krud/fc4-security/repodata/repomd.xml:
>     [Errno 14]
>     HTTP Error 404: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:40:49 GMT
>     Server: Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)
>     Content-Length: 315
>     Connection: close
>     Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
>
>     Trying other mirror.
>     Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: krud-security
>     [root@maddog1 kerryb]#
>
>
>
>
>
>
I don't think that this will copy recursively. cp -r will I believe, but 
not sure if it will pick up the .xxxtype files. But, thanks for the input.