From: mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Junius) Subject: Re: mj-release experiences Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 09:09:49 GMT
fortony@sonne.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Step two is to not log in as 'install'. My apologies, Martin, but I
>distinctly remember errors with /bin/cp. If I manage to hose my hard
>disk, I'll try again with these files and see if I can replicate it,
>but for now I'm just going to recommend doing it by hand (which is
>valuable experiencewise anyway). Log in as root. It's fun.
There is now a corrected root image available, where using the
`install' script should work. See my previous post about that.
>cd /
>mount /dev/hdaX /mnt (again, X is that number from step 4)
>cd mnt
>cp +recursive +verbose /bin bin
>cp +recursive +verbose /etc etc
>cp +recursive +verbose /dev dev
>cp +recursive +verbose /lib lib
>cp +recursive +verbose /usr usr
>cp +recursive +verbose /var var
>[...]
>sync
This will waste disk space, because all files with hard links
will be copied twice or more. Use tar to copy the directory
hierarchie.
>This is where the other mj-package disks come in. Slip one of the three
>non-boot non-root disks into the floppy drive and type
>cd /
>tar xvf /dev/fd0
Please use the `M' option of tar, the 3 disks are a _multi-vol_
GNU tar archive.
I'll make a new `mj' release this or next week, which will
hopefully correct all problems people run into so far. I promise
to test the installation procedure thoroughly.
Martin
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