From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark Eichin) Subject: Re: Installing Packages from HD - how ? Date: 6 Jan 1993 22:07:52 GMT
In article <1993Jan06.013328.7683@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de> horke@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de (Bernhard Kroenung) writes:
From: horke@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de (Bernhard Kroenung)
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 01:33:28 GMT
is it possible to install packages from HD (mounted DOS-Partition) instead
of installing every single disk. Just put all the files in a directory and
the "sysinstall -instsrc /mounted/dos/partition" should work - but how ?
Well, if you have the "disks" as normal directories, such as /dos/b1,
/dos/b2, /dos/x1, etc... then
sysinstall -instsrc /dos -series b
sysinstall -instsrc /dos -series x
will work (I did my most recent upgrade this way, though the disks
weren't on a DOS partition, just a second linux one... took a1-a4
from floppies, mounted the other disk, and about 3 minutes later had
*ALL* of SLS installed.)
Note that the usage message for SLS is still wrong - it says
"-special", which doesn't actually exist. (Peter? I sent you email
about this last November... /dev/null is still mode 644 instead of 666
as well... I'm not complaining, I'm just not sure that the email ever
reached you.)
_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
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