Problem in rsync!!!

[Natanael Copa]

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 12:07 +0530, Meenal Gupta, Noida wrote:
> hello ,

Hi,

> I have done the following things...........
> 1) Creating an empty file with a 320K size:
> 
>     dd if=/dev/zero of=rootfs.img bs=320k count=1
> 
> 2) Formating this file for the ext2 filesystem:
> 
>     mkfs.ext2 -i 1024 -F roots.img
> 
> 3) Then I have build busybox using uclbc..........
> 
> 4)Creating a mount point:
> 
>     mkdir /mnt/rootfs
> 
> 5) Mounting the root filesystem image:
> 
>     mount -o loop roots.img /mnt/rootfs
> 
> 6)Copying the busybox file structure into the mounted image:
> 
>     rsync -a busybox/_install/ /mnt/rootfs/
> 
> but after doing these i have stucked in the problem.............there
> exist an error i.e.
> 
> [root at localhost busybox-1.2.0]# rsync -a busybox/_install/ /mnt/rootfs
> link_stat busybox/_install/. : Not a directory
> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
> main.c(620)
> 
> please help me to remove this error.

The error message tells you that busybox/_install is not a directory. It
means that either busybox or busybox/_install is not a directory.

Try this:

ls -l busybox
ls -l busybox/_install


> 
>  
> Regards,
> Meenal Gupta 


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