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From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Subject: Re: How download X386 to floppies?
Message-ID: <1992Aug28.011842.9607@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:18:42 GMT
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allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) writes:
: 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)?
Please do read my article on multivolume tar.
:
In your case, first you need to insall the GNU tar 1.10 . I do not think that
the Sun tar can do multivolume, why don't you check with man tar.
If you have GNU tar 1.10, you do the following commands
tar cvMf /dev/rfd0 {file to archive}
; note that I forgot Sun floppy device name
; I recommend that you archive each file separately to prevent one error
; affecting all the others
; to verify
tar -tvMf /dev/rfd0
; to extract to 386bsd without copying the files first
tar -xvMOzf /dev/rfd0a | tar xvf -
; warning: I have problems with links
I've not done this personally, I hope you can try and tell us about it.
--
Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet