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From: eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco)
Subject: Re: How download X386 to floppies?
Message-ID: <1992Aug27.190505.4577@engage.pko.dec.com>
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References: <22269@venera.isi.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:05:05 GMT
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In article <22269@venera.isi.edu>, allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) writes:
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> From: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard)
> Subject: How download X386 to floppies?
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 15:36:41 GMT+5:00
> Organization: USC Information Sciences Institute
> My goal: create a set of floppies with the X386 distribution on them
> and then extract that distribution onto my 386BSD.
> My situation:
> At home: 386BSD binary distribution up and running on a 386-33 clone
> At work: HP-UX and SunOS workstations, one which has a floppy drive
> I have already ftp'd the files core-{bin,server,fonts,inc,lib,man}-1.0.3.tar.Z
> from agate.berkeley.edu to a fileserver at work. How can I create a
> multivolume set of floppies which I can then use to install X on my 386 at
> home?
> I cannot use MCOPY to move the files to floppies as each one is far too big
> to fit on a single floppy. This has GOT to be a simple problem, what am
> I missing (besides a Unix User's guide, something which two decades of
> Unix users have missed)?
> Dennis
> allard@isi.edu
> (310)399-4740
I assume that you have a high-density 3 1/2" floppy on your machines at work.
Try this. Find and compile GNU tar on your HP or Sun system. (Maybe regular
tar will work, I haven't tried it.) Put your disk in the drive, and use
tar cvzf /dev/rrz4a -L 1440 <directory>
or whatever your favorite options (and whatever device your floppy is). It will
prompt you to swap disks. Then simply transfer the floppies to your 386BSD
system:
tar xvZf /dev/rfd0a
and that should work. It works on my Ultrix system.
I should note that actually I may be lying; I don't think I've actually tried
to restore a multidisk compressed archive (I did see some notes on problems
with that) so you might try the same thing uncompressed. However I know I can
read disks written by my Ultrix machine on 386; I've tried it with single
disks.
Eric
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