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- From: rafal@utstat.uucp (Rafal Kustra (summer student))
- Subject: Re: How do you install programs?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.152738.20697@utstat.uucp>
- Keywords: Linux, newbie, FAQ?
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <1992Aug30.031010.12106@eskimo.celestial.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 15:27:38 GMT
- Lines: 33
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- In article <1992Aug30.031010.12106@eskimo.celestial.com> shamus@eskimo.celestial.com (Jay Mottern) writes:
- >
- >I'd like to install the manual, Elvis and a comm program (minicom) but
- >can't get them onto my Linux partition (hda2, root and user, 30 MB).
- >The files are currently on my DOS partition. I've tried rawriting the
- >files to floppies and using dd, and tried mounting the DOS partition
- >and copying them directly, but nothing works.
- >
- >......................................................................
- > shamus@eskimo.celestial.com (Jay Mottern)
- >
- > "Welcome to Seattle. Now go home!" (bumper sticker)
-
-
- If you got those programs via modem try rawriting them
- one per disk.
- Then try :
- tar zxvf /dev/fd0
- Now z option tells tar to run uncompress first. If file
- is not compressed omit it. (ie if file name doesn't end
- in Z). Also if your tar is a new one it doesn't support z
- option. In that case do:
- uncompress < /dev/fd[01] | tar xvf -
- '-' tels tar to read from stdin.
- Ps. fd0 is your a drive fd1 is b.
- PS2: Install mtools as soon as possible. ;)
-
- Rafal
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