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- From: eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco)
- Subject: Re: How download X386 to floppies?
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- References: <22269@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:05:05 GMT
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- In article <22269@venera.isi.edu>, allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) writes:
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- > From: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard)
- > Subject: How download X386 to floppies?
- > Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 15:36:41 GMT+5:00
- > Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute
-
- > My goal: create a set of floppies with the X386 distribution on them
- > and then extract that distribution onto my 386BSD.
-
- > My situation:
-
- > At home: 386BSD binary distribution up and running on a 386-33 clone
- > At work: HP-UX and SunOS workstations, one which has a floppy drive
-
- > I have already ftp'd the files core-{bin,server,fonts,inc,lib,man}-1.0.3.tar.Z
- > from agate.berkeley.edu to a fileserver at work. How can I create a
- > multivolume set of floppies which I can then use to install X on my 386 at
- > home?
-
- > I cannot use MCOPY to move the files to floppies as each one is far too big
- > to fit on a single floppy. This has GOT to be a simple problem, what am
- > I missing (besides a Unix User's guide, something which two decades of
- > Unix users have missed)?
-
- > Dennis
- > allard@isi.edu
- > (310)399-4740
-
- I assume that you have a high-density 3 1/2" floppy on your machines at work.
-
- Try this. Find and compile GNU tar on your HP or Sun system. (Maybe regular
- tar will work, I haven't tried it.) Put your disk in the drive, and use
-
- tar cvzf /dev/rrz4a -L 1440 <directory>
-
- or whatever your favorite options (and whatever device your floppy is). It will
- prompt you to swap disks. Then simply transfer the floppies to your 386BSD
- system:
-
- tar xvZf /dev/rfd0a
-
- and that should work. It works on my Ultrix system.
-
- I should note that actually I may be lying; I don't think I've actually tried
- to restore a multidisk compressed archive (I did see some notes on problems
- with that) so you might try the same thing uncompressed. However I know I can
- read disks written by my Ultrix machine on 386; I've tried it with single
- disks.
-
- Eric
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