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From: raz@sleeper.apana.org.au (Roland Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Stupid quiestion
Message-ID: <C51uFq.7vK@sleeper.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 06:38:13 GMT
References: <C4s8Ip.M30@ms.uky.edu>
Organization: Desolation Road Railfan BBS
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dkopy00@nx34.mik.uky.edu (dmitry kopytsev) writes:
>Hi!
>This question is about instalation procedure. Unfortunately I was able to
>find answer into INSTALL.NOTES or FAQ files.
>As far as I understand to make Tiny instalation disk I should use
>rawrite.exe program. But what should I do with the other (like bin01.00,
>bin01.01, etc) files. Just copy on disks accoring the numbers?
>Thanks in advance,
>Dima.
No - this is a stupid documentation question. I never did find a clearly
documented answer to this. The idea is that the other files need to reach
a file system mounted by your 386bsd box, one way or another. The ideas
in the INSTALL.NOTES are basically:
Read from mounted CD-ROM.
Transfer in electronically (FTP/Ethernet, FTP/SLIP, Zmodem)
Read from MSDOS floppy disks using MREAD, literally put as
many of the files as will fit on a disk (as I recall,
the size of ???01.?? was chosen to fit efficiently on
both 1.2Mb and 1.44Mb floppies the idea being that you
can all but fill a 1.2Mb floppy with ~5-6 of the files
or a 1.44Mb floppy with ~6-7 of them. To answer your question
copy anynumber of them to any diskettes in any form that you
like, just mread them in. Generally, start at ???01.01 and
copy it and as many of its successors as possible to the
first disk and then continue on the next disk etc.
Read from tape. Again, very similar - have all of ???01.?? on
tape and read them all into /tmp.
In all cases, read the files into /tmp and run extract.
WARNING: extract will vanish at the first boot after installing bin01. (As
will everything else in /tmp.) It's probably a good idea if doing a base
install to NOT use the original dist.fs - use one with a nicer (patched)
kernel instead. Once this is done, copy in ALL of the distribution (NB I
assume that you have >230Mb of HD space - if not it gets trickier) to /tmp
then 'extract bin01' 'extract src01' and 'extract etc01'.
Then reboot.
Then consider applying patchkit 2.2.
Then play to your heart's content :-)
--
Bye for now.
- Raz. (Roland Turner)
raz@sleeper.apana.org.au VK2ZRT Raz@3:712/413.1 (OH) 61 2 319 5700