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- From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Installation adventures and other magic, (a cry for help!!!)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.090709.11066@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 09:07:09 GMT
- References: <lad6o8INNjhj@aludra.usc.edu>
- Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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- eddy@aludra.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy) writes:
- : bad sector flag entry.
-
- Ya, this is the mistake. I did it myself.
- :
- : *I think this may have been a mistake*????
- :
- : rebooted and IT WORKED!!! gee what clever guy, i thought i was.
- :
- :
- : So now i set out to extract bin01, had to use /usr/tmp because
- extract only works with /tmp
- : i just extracted by hand. zcat | unompress | cpio -pdalmu.
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- this is completely wrong;
- should be
- cat bin* | uncompress | (cd /; cpio -idialmu )
- :
- : it completed with no complaints, however when i rebooted, i
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- before you reboot, run
- sh install.bin ( or something),
- if it failed,
- cd /dev
- sh MAKEDEV
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- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
- Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
- Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet
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