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From: dxper@dtek.chalmers.se (Per Anders Olausson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Sorry, everyone, but I'm cpio clueless...
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Date: 19 Jul 92 20:41:40 GMT
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wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
>As the INSTALL.NOTE's mention, to install it the prior, manual way by
>writing a disktab entry is *not documented*, although possible with the
>new FIXIT floppy. Crossing between the two mechanisms is also possible
>but not reccomended unless you really know what you are doing (also, since
>totally untested by us, may provoke bugs we are totally unaware of).
I can't say I remember any major bugs when I used tar other than it being
a real pain to get to tar in the first place...!
>The install program is still under development (this is a surprise?), being
>a recent addition, and one on which we'd like to hear some well considered
>discussion, because of the choices possible. It's hard for a system this
Actually what would have saved my day was if
a) I knew cpio before I started out
b) had tar
c) if install had an option in which you could tell it to load to an
already mounted disk, ie. "install /mnt" or something like that which
would then skip all questions and hog over the whole stuff. Which if
I'm not mistaken would be nothing more than one or two lines of C code.
Also, I think you should have shipped the whole distribution to someone who
had never seen it before and ask him to a) install using default and b) using
the manual way. It would have saved a lot of people trouble I think.
Perhaps the bug in cat would have been found then...?
Anyway, many thanks for releasing the thing. It was totally unexpected. B-)
pao
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