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- From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
- Subject: Re: How download X386 to floppies?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.011842.9607@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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- References: <22269@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:18:42 GMT
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- allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) writes:
- : 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)?
-
- Please do read my article on multivolume tar.
- :
-
- In your case, first you need to insall the GNU tar 1.10 . I do not think that
- the Sun tar can do multivolume, why don't you check with man tar.
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- If you have GNU tar 1.10, you do the following commands
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- tar cvMf /dev/rfd0 {file to archive}
-
-
- ; note that I forgot Sun floppy device name
- ; I recommend that you archive each file separately to prevent one error
- ; affecting all the others
-
- ; to verify
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- tar -tvMf /dev/rfd0
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-
- ; to extract to 386bsd without copying the files first
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- tar -xvMOzf /dev/rfd0a | tar xvf -
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- ; warning: I have problems with links
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-
- I've not done this personally, I hope you can try and tell us about it.
-
- --
- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
- Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
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