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- From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark Eichin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Installing Packages from HD - how ?
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 22:07:52 GMT
- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- In-reply-to: horke@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de's message of Wed, 06 Jan 1993 01:33:28 GMT
-
- In article <1993Jan06.013328.7683@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de> horke@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de (Bernhard Kroenung) writes:
- From: horke@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de (Bernhard Kroenung)
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 01:33:28 GMT
-
- is it possible to install packages from HD (mounted DOS-Partition) instead
- of installing every single disk. Just put all the files in a directory and
- the "sysinstall -instsrc /mounted/dos/partition" should work - but how ?
-
-
- Well, if you have the "disks" as normal directories, such as /dos/b1,
- /dos/b2, /dos/x1, etc... then
- sysinstall -instsrc /dos -series b
- sysinstall -instsrc /dos -series x
- will work (I did my most recent upgrade this way, though the disks
- weren't on a DOS partition, just a second linux one... took a1-a4
- from floppies, mounted the other disk, and about 3 minutes later had
- *ALL* of SLS installed.)
- Note that the usage message for SLS is still wrong - it says
- "-special", which doesn't actually exist. (Peter? I sent you email
- about this last November... /dev/null is still mode 644 instead of 666
- as well... I'm not complaining, I'm just not sure that the email ever
- reached you.)
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