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Preseed command to copy a file to /root directory

I was hoping to edit the command below to copy a file "start.bin" from the install cd to /root on the installation machine.

Code:

d-i     preseed/late_command string \
   wget -O /target/root/start.bin 'http://abc.start.bin' \
   && in-target chmod 755 /root/start.bin \

My best guess is it would be something like...

Code:

d-i     preseed/late_command string \
   cp start.bin \ && in-target chmod 755 /root/start.bin \

This is probably very simple, but as a newb to Linux it seems daunting. Thank you in advance for any help.

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-04-2012 at 05:59 PM.. Reason: code tags

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