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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: Help with installing srcdist in 386bsd References: <1992Aug27.181005.25135@news.columbia.edu> Date: 31 Aug 92 08:20:26 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.715249226@du9ds3> Lines: 49 In <1992Aug27.181005.25135@news.columbia.edu> cl45@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ching-Tse Liu) writes: >Hi, > I have problem installing the source distribution. Right after >I installed the binaries distribution, I typed "rm bin01.*" then " >loadfd". Now when it came to src01.37, the system stopped and refused >to copy anymore files and didn't respond to control-c. I had no choice >but to reboot. Of course it came up with the content of /tmp cleared. >What did I do wrong ? I tried this twice with the same problem. > Is it possible to install the source with the binaries installed? >Or do I have to start all over ? Any help will be greatly appreciated. > *********************** >--cliu@merlin.appmath.columbia.edu * CLifton T. Liu * >--cl45@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu *********************** There is an entry in the FAQ relating to a similiar problem with install. I was caught with the same problem when I reinstalled my disk for more swap space. If, after reboot, fsck does not complain about something odd in filesystem, there is good chance that the bin release is still intact. To install bin+src+etc I recommend the following procedure: Install the dist.fs to the disk, as usual. Save the 'extract' utility that is in /tmp to somewhere (e.g. to a new directory /usr/install) Copy the bin release to the disk, with mread, e.g. by $ for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > do > echo insert disk $i and hit return > read answer > mread "a:bin*" /tmp > done $ cd /tmp $ /usr/install/extract bin01 and after it has completed, reboot. Get a /bin/csh afterwards, and change $ limit openfiles 128 Get the src or etc release with the same procedure as above. Hope that helps 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"