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From: rminnich@super.org (Ronald G Minnich)
Subject: compaq users: new boot disk and tar file of bin01
Message-ID: <1992Sep30.171709.12748@super.org>
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Organization: Supercomputing Research Center (Bowie, MD)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:17:09 GMT
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Due to a request met.super.org now has the following:
1) fixit disk bootable on compaqs
fixit.compaq.ftp
2) compressed tar file of one of my compaq's root and /usr/ partition.
386bsd.0.1.usr-root.tar.Z
the fixit disk is minus some standard things, notably cpio, stty.
there was not much room. the kernel is stripped too.
the idea is:
1) boot this diskette
2) ftp and zcat are on the diskette, as is ifconfig.
3) disklabel and newfs your disk, both a and b (you need it for a minute)
4) mount the disk, both a and b partitions (remember you are still running
from floppy)
5) ifconfig your iface. ftp the tar.z file down to the b partition of the disk.
6) cd to the place where you have the a partition mounted, and
zcat the tar.z | tar xf -. Once that is done the a partition of the
disk is now loaded with 386bsd.
7) don't reboot until you fix the host, resolv.conf, and hostname files.
8) shutdown. you should be able to reboot from the hard disk.
NOte: sorry about this, i just realized the kernel on the fixit is
only for ne0. if you need something different, let me know ...
i got sick of the damn printfs.
ron
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