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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!darwin.sura.net!rsg1.er.usgs.gov!ukma!news1.gsfc.nasa.gov!nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov!williams From: williams@nssdcs.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Williams) Subject: how do I use a QIC-150 tape to install 386bsd? Message-ID: <C3oD4y.EL2@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@skates.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1993 13:22:09 GMT Lines: 35 I'm getting ready to install 386bsd on my home machine. I have downloaded all the necessary files from the net onto my Sun box at work. I plan to use a QIC-150 tape to move the files from the Sun to my home machine, which has an Archive Viper drive on an Adaptec 1542B controller. What is very unclear to me is just what goes onto the tape. I understand how to get a mimimal system onto my harddisk with the "dist" floppy, and I have booted that floppy successfully. I *think* I understand that I have to get the bin01.XX files into the /tmp directory that install will make on my hard dist, since that's what extract wants. But how do I do that? Do a make a cpio file of all the compressed cpio files, then use cpio to extract that into /tmp? I had hoped that I could mush all the bin01.xx files together into a "bin01.cpio.Z" file and dd that onto the tape, but it seems that extract really wants the individual files. It that true? Also, is the MANIFEST file needed? Is that what extract uses for verification? Also, I'm a little confused on the partition issue. I normally think of BSD Unix as having, typically, at least the root, swap and /usr "partitions". Is there any relationship between these partitions and the DOS/FDISK partitions, or are all of these Unix partitions kept within a single DOS-style partition. It is only possible to have four of these DOS partitions per physical disk, right? This will have an impact on me as I'm trying to figure out what mix of DOS/Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, and 386BSD I can sanely try to cram onto my system. Even my 350MB Fujuitsu may not cut it! Many many thanks from a 386bsd newbie, Jim -- ------ Spoken: James W. Williams Company: Hughes STX Internet: williams@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov Phone: +1 301 286-1131 USPS: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Code 633; Greenbelt, MD 20771 Maryland Car Tags: DEV CAR Motto: Net/2, USL 0!