On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 10:20 -0500, David Wright wrote: > 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.)
Ahh, I wasn't paying enough attention to realise we were talking about the installer. You could get the same effect of "cp -n" with "yes n | cp -i". -- Tixy
