On Mon 08 Oct 2018 at 06:59:15 (+0100), Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2018-10-07 at 20:08 -0500, David Wright wrote: > [...] > > If you're impatient and want to copy files to the stick during > > installation, note that (last time I looked) cp has no -n switch > > at this time. > > $ man cp | grep -C1 '\-n,' > > -n, --no-clobber > do not overwrite an existing file (overrides a previous -i > option)
You're on the wrong man page. You need to read man busybox. (I haven't checked how much of stretch's busybox is in d-i's busybox; perhaps all, perhaps not.) I would expect people to figure out the workaround of using a fresh stick and consolidating (if required) later. Perhaps; perhaps not. Cheers, David.
