From: SCHLIGHW@dosuni1.rz.uni-osnabrueck.de (Hans Schligtenhorst) Subject: Re: Installing Packages from HD - how ? Date: 7 Jan 1993 17:28:05 GMT
In article <1993Jan06.013328.7683@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de>
horke@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de (Bernhard Kroenung) writes:
>Hy
>
>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 ?
>
>
Hi,
- untar the SLS-tar-file.
- rawrite or dd the disks a1 and a2 to disk
- boot with disk a1 and disk a2
- mount your dos-disk
- mkdir a subdir called a2 in the SLS-tree (rename the a2-file you copied
to disk). Attention: ist has to be in the subdir, where a3 and a4 are.
- copy the mounted disk (a2 is now inserted!) to this new subdir (I think,
only the subdir including the .taz-files have to be copied).
- fdisk and mkfs the disk, if it is not be done yet.
- and now: sysinstall with the given options will work from hd!
Sounds a bit complicate, but if you examine the structure of the SLS-tree,
which will be build, when you untar the SLS.tar-file, then it will be
clear. The hurdle is a2, it is a file instead of a subdir. So you have to
dd it to disk, rename the file and make an analog subdir with the .taz-
contents etc.
By the way: I did it this way and it worked. Oh, I wrote this list from
my brain and I hope, I didn't miss anything.
A last hint: look into /bin/doinstall and /bin/sysinstall, it will help
a lot. Oh, I missed the bootable disk! Finally you have to dd the /Image
to disk and "rdev /dev/hda1 /" or "rdev /dev/hd?? /". Then it will work.
Booting from HD will work via lilo, but it's another chapter ;-)
Hope it will help
Hans