Subject: Re: ftp.wasabi.com install disks fail
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@zen.void.oz.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/04/1995 16:06:31
I'm just unpacking the last of the wasabi snapshot on my newly
repaired notebook...

I had no problems at all getting to the point where I could boot the
1.1 kernel off the hard disk.

At this point I switched back to my 1.0A.95.08.18 kernel so that I
could get pcmcia ep0 support - I'm _very_ glad to say this seems to
work fine :-)

> I have the problem on the installation disks (ie - I don't even get to the
> point where I _could_ run tar, if I wanted to).
> 
> BTW - I am pretty sure I saw some notes on wasabi that said to use --unlink,
> and I was pretty sure that --unlink is under the --help for tar.

I found (long time ago) when trying to install on a sparc, that it
seemed to matter where you put the --unlink directive.

My solution to this is, after booting on the hard disk and gaining
access to the tar files, is to mv /bin and friends to /obin etc. Don't
forget to update your PATH :-)

This way there is no chance of tripping over, and if you do get
interrupted you still have access to the dist binaries that will work
even if there are not yet any shared libs etc.

Of course the above breaks in that each of /usr/bin/* is a symlink to
/bin/cat which is now /obin/cat.  So I end up making a bunch of hard
links in /obin instead - I end up blowing away the whole directory
anyway so no matter.

--sjg