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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!mjm From: mjm@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Mike McBain) Subject: extract problem Message-ID: <1992Jul30.043644.7027@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Keywords: bin01.install Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia. Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 04:36:44 GMT I have noted the problem of the missing brackets with the bin01.install script. This is a related problem, but moved one step earlier. First, let me describe what I *think* happens. install places the executable extract in /tmp loadfd can be used to copy the bin01 distribution fragments from DOS floppies (question: where is this useful program to be found? it seems to disappear when the system goes multi-user) when extract is run, the extraction never completes. It just runs for ever. I have tried extracting using cpio, but then /dev/kmem doesn't get made and a whole bunch of other things don't get done. If the problem is a missing [ or ] in the shell script, how do I get at the script, which only seems to appear in /tmp/tmp after extract has been run? Is there something particularly slow about the cpio on the boot disk? It takes over two hours to extract the bin01 distribution when I use uncompress and cpio. -- --- Mike McBain David Syme Faculty of Business mjm@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au Monash University - Caulfield +61 3 573 2646 Australia