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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: Extracting 386bsd bin01 on another machine References: <veit.714937780@du9ds3> <1992Aug27.180957.5715@news.th-darmstadt.de> Date: 31 Aug 92 08:16:02 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.715248962@du9ds3> Lines: 45 In <1992Aug27.180957.5715@news.th-darmstadt.de> deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Hans-Christoph Deeken) writes: >Holger Veit (veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de) wrote: >> >> 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. >What makes you believe that a Sun 3 works different than a Sparc in this case, >provided they run the same version of SunOS? They're both big-endian machines. >My Sun 3/60 running SunOS 4.1.1 had no problems at all with the 386BSD archives. >> Holger >Hannes >-- >Hans-Christoph Deeken (Glenlivet on IRC) >Inst. fuer theoret. Informatik (deeken@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de) >TH Darmstadt, Germany (I don't speak for THD, they don't speak for me) > "Whisky ist fluessiges Sonnenlicht --- George Bernard Shaw" It has been rumored (in this group) that there are problems with Sun 3's (probably running an older version than 4.1.1 and/or a bug in cpio of that version). If you tell us that it works with a Sun 3 under 4.1.1, it is okay. Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"