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From: eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco)
Subject: Re: Extracting 386bsd bin01 on another machine
Message-ID: <1992Aug27.192704.5130@engage.pko.dec.com>
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Reply-To: ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
References: <babraham.714900677@unpcs1> <veit.714937780@du9ds3>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 19:27:04 GMT
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> In <babraham.714900677@unpcs1> babraham@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za (Bobby Abraham) writes:
> >Can someone tell me how to extract the bin01 files on another unix
> >machine.
> >I don't have enough space for the unextracted files in addition
> >to the extracted files. I would like to ftp only the extracted files.
> >thank you
> >--
> >Bobby Abraham
> >Computer Science
> >University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg
> >email: babraham@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za
> If you do not have some "braindead-cpio" system which swaps bytes (Sun3 and
> other 68xxx related systems have this "feature") you might try the following:
> # have the bin01.* files HERE
> mkdir distdir
> cd distdir
> cat ../bin01.* | uncompress | cpio -idvalmu
> into a directory under 'distdir'. But be warned: there may be complaints
> about some devices in distdir/dev/* which cannot be created if you are not
> root (depends on whether you may execute mknod). You may have to rebuild the
> devices on the 386bsd system manually.
> This procedure has been tested on a Sun4 Sparc.
I have heard you might need to add the -C option to cpio.
Nevertheless I myself said "Screw it" and solved the problem in another way.
FTP to gatekeeper.dec.com and get the SOURCES to real BSD cpio. It's in
pub/bsd-sources-2/usr.bin/cpio.c.Z. Create a .h file paths.h with
#define _PATH_TTY "/dev/"
in it. Compile it, ignoring the libraries in the initial comment. It works
great.
Eric
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