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- From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hans-Christoph Deeken)
- Subject: Re: Extracting 386bsd bin01 on another machine
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.180957.5715@news.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:09:57 GMT
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- Holger Veit (veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de) wrote:
- >
- > If you do not have some "braindead-cpio" system which swaps bytes (Sun3 and
- > other 68xxx related systems have this "feature") you might try the following:
- >
- > # have the bin01.* files HERE
- > mkdir distdir
- > cd distdir
- > cat ../bin01.* | uncompress | cpio -idvalmu
- >
- > into a directory under 'distdir'. But be warned: there may be complaints about
- > some devices in distdir/dev/* which cannot be created if you are not root
- > (depends on whether you may execute mknod). You may have to rebuild the
- > devices on the 386bsd system manually.
- >
- > This procedure has been tested on a Sun4 Sparc.
-
- What makes you believe that a Sun 3 works different than a Sparc in this case,
- provided they run the same version of SunOS? They're both big-endian machines.
-
- My Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.1.1 had no problems at all with the 386BSD archives.
-
-
- > Holger
-
- Hannes
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- Hans-Christoph Deeken (Glenlivet on IRC)
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