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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!caen!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!sitka.triumf.ca!felawka From: felawka@sitka.triumf.ca (Larry Felawka) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Install/extract? Date: 24 Mar 1993 18:22:34 GMT Organization: TRIUMF, Vancouver BC Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1oq8taINN1qu@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <C4DKC1.14M@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> NNTP-Posting-Host: sitka.triumf.ca In article <C4DKC1.14M@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>, dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes: |> |> When installing "bindist", "etcdist", and "srcdist", I seem to have |> trouble with "extract". |> |> After a nice clean "install" with Tiny 386BSD, and "loadfd" followed |> by "extract bin01", I reboot (first copying "extract" to /bin). |> So far, so good - I have a nice clean system. |> |> NOW THE PROBLEM: After I "mread" the "etcdist" to /tmp I do |> "extract etc01". All goes well until the end |> when I get: |> |> 'Final Installation: |> /tmp/install.etc01: Can't open /tmp/install.etc01 |> extract: Cannot execute installation script of distribution, failed' |> |> I did "chmod 777 /tmp" to no avail. Any wisdom imparted greatly |> appreciated!! No problem! The "install" procedure expects to execute an installation shell script after it has unpacked the distribution. The "bin" distribution set has such a shell script while the others don't.