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Skimmel · Joined: 07 May 2007 Posts: 27 Location: Houston, TX

After playing with the Pizzapup version of Puppy for a month or so, I've decided to blow away the windoze system and turn the computer into a Puppy only machine. Since I didn't want to lose everything I had done, I copied the pza-save.2fs to a flash drive so I could easily restore all my settings and installed programs and so on and so forth.

I assume there is a simple way to do that, move items from the save file to the hard disk in a full hard disk installation but at the moment, it is escaping me. Can someone tell me how to do that?

HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2949 Location: Southampton, UK

I seem to remember a graphical tool for doing this but on the command line the following should do it assuming you are in the same directory as your pza-save.2fs

Pizzasgood · Posted: Thu 24 May 2007, 11:19 Post subject:

Copying large numbers of files will go much much faster on the commandline, by the way! Doing it through Rox is slooooow, even on a 3GHz machine.

But before you copy the entire file, keep in mind some files might be a little different in an HD install. So it might be better to only copy specific things.

Personally, I prefer the Frugal install. That way I can just swap in a new save-file, and do easy backups. But to each his own Smile