From: etlmike@dogsbody.ericsson.se (Mike Wilcox) Subject: Re: SLS won't install a3 and up; still seeking help for this. Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 13:11:07 GMT
In article <mce159.8@mcs.salford.ac.uk> mce159@mcs.salford.ac.uk (GI PERKINS) writes:
>There's something wrong w/ the sysinstall script on a2 (ftp'd files on Jan
>19). It asks for disks a3, a4, and so on, but doesn't install anything, just
>rapidly asks for each successive disk. Each disk is DOS format, giving the
>magic mount failed msg, and each has the disk ID.
>Won't someone pls help?
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The packages used to be tar'ed and compressed and had the extension '.taz'.
But now they seem to be tar'ed and gzip'ed, now having the extension '.tpz'.
So until we can get hold of gzip (uncompressed) then we seem to be a bit
stuck.
gzip comes on the A-disk set. However, an old A1 disk had a problem
with the instalation program - it looked at a '.tzp' suffix, while all
packages were given a '.tpz' suffix.
Hey presto - no packages to install!
Try a new a1/a2 set to install the rest of the distribution.
I have tried using DOS's PKUNZIP to decompress the packages, but with no
positive effect whatsoever.
Apparently, the Gnu zip format is different to the PK one. Why, I
don't know. Presumably for better compression rates.
Mike
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