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- From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Luke Mewburn)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Install w/ only 41 Meg?
- Keywords: 386bsd, solution
- Message-ID: <1jth23INNf68@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 07:38:43 GMT
- References: <1631@hcshh.hcs.de> <1993Jan22.214017.7007@Princeton.EDU>
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
- Lines: 128
- NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au
-
- bkc@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Caruthers) writes:
-
-
- > Hi. Now that I've finally figured out how to get my system to
- >boot from the hard drive for 386bsd, and I have the binary distribution
- >on disk (I take it that the mread utility doesn't handle 720K disks in
- >a 1.44 drive too well? I had to transfer them all to 1.2 disks, since
- >I only had four unused 1.44's), I am trying to extract it.
- > I thought I had read somewhere, either on the net or in the
- >docs I printed out (can't find it now), that I could install on a 40 Meg
- >partition. After having twenty minutes of errors from extract about
- >"device full" followed by a reboot after a message which flashed past
- >my screen in a blur before the reboot (as with just about every error
- >message I have noticed), I figure it just ain't so.
- > Is there any way to do partial extracts at a time? (Since it
- >checks the files first, it won't let me do just some at a time) Is
- >there perhaps some way to manually extract the stuff from the
- >bin01.[0-5][0-9] files? (The docs say it is a form of cpio compressed
- >format, so can I use cpio to do so, one or a few files at a time?)
-
- > Slowly getting frustrated (and $aving up for the larger
- >additional drive),
- > -bkc
-
-
- Here is a script I wrote to extract the src dist, but should be able
- to extract the bindist AS LONG AS cpio/sh/expr/zcat, etc exist on the
- boot floppy, AND you are extracting from the other floppy drive (cause
- the script needs to run commands from somewhere :)
-
- You'll have to change some of the parameters in it.
-
- Try it out, and mail back any comments.
-
- NOTE: the following commands need to be on the boot volume:
- sh, cd, rm, mcopy, cat, zcat, cpio, tee, expr
-
-
- --- cut here --- file: unix/386bsd/dl/zextr
- #!/bin/sh
- #
- # zextr - extracts files from 386bsd distributions without need for
- # temporary storage space
- #
- # Copyright (C) 1993, Luke Mewburn (zak@rmit.edu.au)
- #
- # You are free to distribute/modify under the conditions of the
- # GNU license version 2 (or later).
- #
- # Version: 1.2 (930124)
- #
- # Needs the following commands:
- # sh, cd, rm, mcopy, cat, zcat, cpio, tee, expr
- #
- # To use:
- # - change the settings as described below
- # - copy all the files in ascending order to floppies
- # - insert first disk, and run script.
- # - when both the floppy and HD lights are out (i.e, the
- # machine appears to do nothing for a few seconds), swap
- # disks, and press return.
- #
- # -----------
- #
- # Set:
- # NUMPERDISK # of files per disk (eg. 5 / 1.2MB, 6 / 1.44MB )
- # PREFIX prefix of the distrubtion (eg, src01)
- # NUMFILES # of files in distrubtion (eg, 57)
- # CPIOCMD cmd to use with cpio (with -iv) (eg, t to list, adm to extract)
- # DRIVE drive to mcopy from (eg, a)
- # DESTDIR where to extract to (eg, /mnt for bin, / for src)
- # LOGFILE where output is to be tee-ed to (eg, /var/tmp/extractlog)
- #
- # -----------
- #
-
- NUMPERDISK=6
- PREFIX=bin01
- NUMFILES=57
- #CPIOCMD=adm
- CPIOCMD=t
- DRIVE=a
- DESTDIR=/mnt
- LOGFILE=${DESTDIR}/${PREFIX}_zextr_log
-
-
- #
- # the core code follows
- #
-
- NPDminus1=`expr $NUMPERDISK - 1`
- cd $DESTDIR
-
- num=0
- while [ $num -ne $NUMFILES ];
- do
- if [ $num -lt 10 ]; then
- i=${PREFIX}.0$num
- else
- i=${PREFIX}.$num
- fi
- rm -f $i
- mcopy -n ${DRIVE}:$i . >/dev/null
- if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
- echo 1>&2 Mcopy died on file $i, exitting.
- exit 10;
- fi
- cat $i
- if [ `expr $num % $NUMPERDISK` -eq $NPDminus1 ]; then
- read next > /dev/null
- fi
- rm -f $i
- num=`expr $num + 1`
- done | zcat | cpio -iv$CPIOCMD #| tee -a $LOGFILE
- --- cut here ---
-
-
- >--
- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >bkc@Princeton.EDU Bruce Caruthers '93 Princeton University bkc@Sgi.COM
- > "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear
- > never beginning to live." -- Marcus Aurelius
-
-
- --
- Luke Mewburn [Zak] zak@rmit.edu.au
- "Nobody dies on the Discworld, they just become dimensionally
- disadvantaged." Terry Pratchett in alt.fan.pratchett
-