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- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Subject: Re: Extracting 386bsd bin01 on another machine
- References: <veit.714937780@du9ds3> <1992Aug27.180957.5715@news.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 08:16:02 GMT
- Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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- In <1992Aug27.180957.5715@news.th-darmstadt.de> deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hans-Christoph Deeken) writes:
-
- >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
- >--
- >Hans-Christoph Deeken (Glenlivet on IRC)
- >Inst. fuer theoret. Informatik (deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de)
- >TH Darmstadt, Germany (I don't speak for THD, they don't speak for me)
- > "Whisky ist fluessiges Sonnenlicht --- George Bernard Shaw"
-
- It has been rumored (in this group) that there are problems with Sun 3's
- (probably running an older version than 4.1.1 and/or a bug in cpio of that
- version). If you tell us that it works with a Sun 3 under 4.1.1, it is okay.
-
- Holger
-
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