Where on the tape is ...
Dale Mensch
intran!lightning!dale at uunet.uu.net
Sat Jul 14 01:08:34 AEST 1990
In article <9583 at brazos.Rice.edu>, karen at pemrac.space.swri.edu (Karen Birkelbach) writes:
> On the SunOS installation, which category would contain /usr/lib/fonts?
> I'm trying to install a minimum operating system, but I need the fonts.
> karen at pemrac.space.swri.edu Southwest Research Institute
You can find out where things are on boot tapes by doing this (yanked from
SPARCstation1 SunOS 4.0.3c Sun-4c Release Notes, in section 3.6 "How to
View Files in Categories on Tapes"):
cd ~/tape.contents (Go to a working directory)
mt -f /dev/nrst8 asf 1 (Note the "n" prefix on the tape device)
dd -f=/dev/rst8 bs=200k | /usr/etc/install/xdrtoc > TOC
This will spit out stuff like this:
> SunOS 4.0.3c 700-2212-10 Rev. A of Fri May 26 12:45:09 PDT 1989 from Sun Release Engineering
> ARCH sun4c
> VOLUME 1
> Vol File Name Size Type
> 1 0 boot 49152 image
> 1 1 XDRTOC 4096 toc
> 1 2 copy 8704 image
> 1 3 mini-root 6246400 image
> 1 4 munix 770560 image
> 1 5 munixfs 2150400 image
> 1 6 root 204800 tar
...
> 1 14 SunView_Users 2252800 tar
> 1 15 SunView_Programmers 1433600 tar
etc.
I went to all the "tar" files on the tape, and did a "tar tfv >
tar.SunView_Users", for example, on each of them. For minimalization,
this makes it easy to find any given little file you think you want.
Saving all the tar contents takes up about .6 Meg.
Dale Mensch-Xerox Corp/Intran Operation.-Mpls. MN.- uunet!intran!dale
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