Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 10:54:17 -0600 (CST) From: faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: obiwan!bob@uudell.us.dell.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Install tape format?? Message-ID: <9412281654.AA07832@olympus> In-Reply-To: <18170.788590825@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 27, 94 09:00:25 pm
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> > > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > > Read the release notes! Read the release notes! :-) > > > > Hmm, I still can't find any reference to the expected tape format. > > >From the release notes: > > ... > 3. QIC/SCSI Tape Installation. > > Installing from tape is probably the easiest method, short of an > on-line install using ftp or installing from a CDROM. The installation > program expects the files to be simply tar'red onto the tape, so after > getting all of the files for distribution you're interested in, simply > tar them onto the tape with something like: > > cd <where the *.?? files are> > tar cvf /dev/rwt0 (or /dev/rst0) . > > from a directory with just the distribution files in it. Make sure > that you remember to put CKSUMS, do_cksum.sh, and extract.sh files > in this directory as well! > > If you wish to install multiple *dist releases from one tape, do the > following: > > 1. cd to the parent directory of the distributions and put them on tape > like so: > tar cvf /dev/rwt0 (or /dev/rst0) bindist srcdist ... > > 2. Install the first distribution on the tape using the tape installation > method as normal. Afterwards, *do not* erase the contents of the temporary > directory. Get a shell with ESC-ESC and cd to the temporary directory > yourself. For each additional *dist you want to load, cd to its > subdirectory and type `sh ./extract.sh'. > > > I don't know how we can make it any plainer than that! Are you SURE > you read the release notes? :-) > > Jordan > On QIC-150 tapes, I have to use /dev/rst0.1 or no dice. I have an Archive 2150 drive. I relinked /dev/rst0 to /dev/rst0.1 so I could install. Boyd -- _______________________________________________________________________________ Boyd Faulkner faulkner@mpd.tandem.com _______________________________________________________________________________
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