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From: ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie)
Subject: Re: whereis /tmp/install.src0?
Message-ID: <1992Sep1.075001.19205@hippo.ru.ac.za>
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
References: <22278@venera.isi.edu> <1992Aug28.120513.9872@corax.udac.uu.se>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 07:50:01 GMT
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In <1992Aug28.120513.9872@corax.udac.uu.se> goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) writes:
>In article <22278@venera.isi.edu>, allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard) writes:
>|> ==================================
>|> Short version of my question:
>|> /tmp/install.src0 evaporated. How can I recreate it? I still
>|> have all the src01.* files in /tmp. And the extraction went
>|> completely through it's first phase. It now simply needs to
>|> execute /tmp/install.src0, I believe.
>|>
>|> ==================================
>|> (very) Long version of my question:
> [Deleted]
>Easy, it's not there! There is no /tmp/install.???? for either
>the src or etc distribution (probably because no extra setup stuff
>is needed, for the bin distribution it sets host name and makes devices).
On advice from Chris Biggs <s308234@cs.uq.oz.au>, I copied the
{src,etc}dist to /tmp, switched to csh, cd'd to /, and typed
cat /tmp/src01* | zcat | cpio -idv
and it all worked. Let's hope that this info makes its way into the
install document.
Mike
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