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- From: eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco)
- Subject: Re: Extracting 386bsd bin01 on another machine
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.192704.5130@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <babraham.714900677@unpcs1> <veit.714937780@du9ds3>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:27:04 GMT
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- > In <babraham.714900677@unpcs1> babraham@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za (Bobby Abraham) writes:
-
- > >Can someone tell me how to extract the bin01 files on another unix
- > >machine.
-
- > >I don't have enough space for the unextracted files in addition
- > >to the extracted files. I would like to ftp only the extracted files.
-
- > >thank you
-
-
-
- > >--
- > >Bobby Abraham
- > >Computer Science
- > >University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg
- > >email: babraham@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za
-
- > 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.
-
- I have heard you might need to add the -C option to cpio.
-
- Nevertheless I myself said "Screw it" and solved the problem in another way.
-
- FTP to gatekeeper.dec.com and get the SOURCES to real BSD cpio. It's in
- pub/bsd-sources-2/usr.bin/cpio.c.Z. Create a .h file paths.h with
- #define _PATH_TTY "/dev/"
-
- in it. Compile it, ignoring the libraries in the initial comment. It works
- great.
-
- Eric
-
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