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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!mcsun!sunic!corax.udac.uu.se!astro.uu.se!goran From: goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: extract ran for 7+ hours: HELP!! Message-ID: <1992Aug6.103614.1289@corax.udac.uu.se> Date: 6 Aug 92 10:36:14 GMT References: <1992Aug3.173550.10601@nrao.edu> <1992Aug5.153732.17286@cc.ic.ac.uk> Sender: goran@solaris.astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback) Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden Lines: 38 In article <1992Aug5.153732.17286@cc.ic.ac.uk>, eshc@elijah.ee.ic.ac.uk (Eric Cheung) writes: [reference deleted] |> Thanks Chris. For those who had the same problem, this is what I did to get |> round it: |> |> # cd /etc |> # cat bin01.* > bin01.Z |> # rm bin01.?? |> # uncompress bin01.Z |> # cd / |> # cpio -idalmu < /etc/bin01 |> |> Because I am not using pipe and only running 1 process at a time, there was |> enough memory for uncompress. |> [stuff deleted] |> |> Incidentally, I do wish 'extract' is a script so I could use it to do the |> bit after the extraction. As far as I can tell, the only extra thing extract does (xcept for checking the distribution files) is to try to execute the script /tmp/install.<distname> in this case /tmp/install.bin01, so the only thing you should have to do after the cpio is to execute this script (note however that there is a small bug in the install.bin01 script, a space is missing before a ']'). -- Goran ------------------------------+--------------------------------- Goran Hammarback | goran@astro.uu.se Astronomiska Observatoriet | Uppsala Universitet | S-751 20 SWEDEN | ------------------------------+---------------------------------