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- 20-FEBRUARY-1992
-
- INSTALLING usrbin1.tar
-
- The following procedure worked for me. I don't claim that it
- is the best or only way to do this. If you have a better way,
- please, by all means, come forth with it. Without
- further disclaimer, lets do it:
-
- Linux must be installed on you hard disk before proceeding.
-
- After Linux is installed on your hard disk, use rawrite
- to transfer usrbin1.tar to a floppy disk. Insert your boot
- disk in drive A and boot Linux. After booting, change
- to /usr/bin like so:
-
- cd /usr/bin
-
- You will find a file tar.Z which you will want to uncompress. You
- may want to copy it first in case some how you end up mangling it.
- Do this:
-
- cp tar.Z temp.Z
- uncompress temp.Z
- cp temp tar
- rm temp
-
- You should now have a file named tar in /usr/bin. Now insert the
- disk which you created earlier by using rawrite. Now untar
- it by doing this:
- tar xvf /dev/floppy0
-
- After this command terminates successfully do this:
-
- ls
-
- You should find three new files: diff.Z, diff3.Z, and fileutil.tar.Z .
- To install contents of fileutil.tar.Z do this:
-
- uncompress fileutil.tar.Z
-
- After this completes, do a ls and you should see the file named
- fileutil.tar . Untar it by doing this command:
-
- tar xvf fileutil.tar
-
- You will see many utilities being un-arched to /usr/bin.
-
- Now uncompress diff.Z and diff3.Z like so:
-
- uncompress diff.Z
- uncompress diff3.Z
-
- Now make them executable:
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- chmod +x diff
- chmod +x diff3
-
- Installation of usrbin1.tar is now complete.
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