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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!zrz.tu-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!uknet!icdoc!cc.ic.ac.uk!eshc From: eshc@elijah.ee.ic.ac.uk (Eric Cheung) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: extract ran for 7+ hours: HELP!! Message-ID: <1992Aug5.153732.17286@cc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 5 Aug 92 14:37:32 GMT References: <1992Aug3.173550.10601@nrao.edu> Organization: Imperial College London Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: elijah.ee X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3 cflatter@nrao.edu (Chris Flatters) writes: : : It's 1. I had this problem until the extra SIMM's for my CompuAdd system : arrived (but I didn't have the patience to wait seven hours). Uncompress : (the cpio archive is compressed) has a habit of taking infinite time if it : runs out of memory. : : Chris Flatters : cflatter@nrao.edu Thanks Chris. For those who had the same problem, this is what I did to get round it: # cd /etc # cat bin01.* > bin01.Z # rm bin01.?? # uncompress bin01.Z # cd / # cpio -idalmu < /etc/bin01 Because I am not using pipe and only running 1 process at a time, there was enough memory for uncompress. Thereafter, things got a bit more chaotic. I am sure there are better ways of doing things, but I rebooted, ran fsck manually (as requested during bootup), ran MAKEDEV std, edited /etc/rc to comment out several deamons to save RAM, and put my machine name in /etc/myname. It seems to work OK except it did a lot of swapping. Having said all the above, I think I will buy some RAM and reinstall 386BSD properly using extract again. However, this does let me play around with the system for a bit, and give me the extra incentive to save up for the RAM. Incidentally, I do wish 'extract' is a script so I could use it to do the bit after the extraction. Eric Cheung [The above is just what I did. If you try it, do it at your own risk.]