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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!nuscc!ntuix!eoahmad From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Installation adventures and other magic, (a cry for help!!!) Message-ID: <1992Sep4.090709.11066@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Date: 4 Sep 92 09:07:09 GMT References: <lad6o8INNjhj@aludra.usc.edu> Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore Lines: 32 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 eddy@aludra.usc.edu (George Edmond Eddy) writes: : bad sector flag entry. Ya, this is the mistake. I did it myself. : : *I think this may have been a mistake*???? : : rebooted and IT WORKED!!! gee what clever guy, i thought i was. : : : So now i set out to extract bin01, had to use /usr/tmp because extract only works with /tmp : i just extracted by hand. zcat | unompress | cpio -pdalmu. this is completely wrong; should be cat bin* | uncompress | (cd /; cpio -idialmu ) : : it completed with no complaints, however when i rebooted, i before you reboot, run sh install.bin ( or something), if it failed, cd /dev sh MAKEDEV -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet