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From: deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hans-Christoph Deeken)
Subject: Re: Extracting 386bsd bin01 on another machine
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:09:57 GMT
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Holger Veit (veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de) wrote:
>
> If you do not have some "braindead-cpio" system which swaps bytes (Sun3 and
> other 68xxx related systems have this "feature") you might try the following:
>
> # have the bin01.* files HERE
> mkdir distdir
> cd distdir
> cat ../bin01.* | uncompress | cpio -idvalmu
>
> into a directory under 'distdir'. But be warned: there may be complaints about
> some devices in distdir/dev/* which cannot be created if you are not root
> (depends on whether you may execute mknod). You may have to rebuild the
> devices on the 386bsd system manually.
>
> This procedure has been tested on a Sun4 Sparc.
What makes you believe that a Sun 3 works different than a Sparc in this case,
provided they run the same version of SunOS? They're both big-endian machines.
My Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.1.1 had no problems at all with the 386BSD archives.
> Holger
Hannes
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