SUMMARY2: floppy hell, pkgadd hell, driver hell
2007-12-24 20:35:00
I apologize for not replying to EVERYONE (there were lots of you. thanks again.)
I wanted to add two more suggestions (though I havent tried these yet):
B) pkgadd to spool
>>>>-s spool Write the package into the directory spool
>>>> instead of installing it.
"pkgadd -d /dev/rfd0 -s spool anfc. This will copy the pkg
instance to /var/spool/pkg"
C) pkgtrans
eg: pkgtrans -s /dev/rfd0 /tmp/anfc.pkg
or: pkgtrans /vol/dev/rdiskette/diskette0 /var/tmp all
>Thanks for the loads of replies..
>And they were all the same !
>
>dd if=/dev/rfd0 of=abc.xyz bs=something
>
>
>>So..
>>
>>I have a floppy with some adapter drivers on it. Probably the only copy
>>left in existence.
>>
>>And it does work.. (I tried it) Instructions say:
>>
>>/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
>>pkgadd -d /dev/rfd0 anfc
>>
>>yada yada yada
>>/etc/init.d/volmgt start
>>
>>and all this does work..
>>on the wrong machine.
>>
>>You see.. I have ONE sparc with a floppy drive on it, and NO sbus boxes
>>with floppies, I am hoping to copy all the files off this floppy and make
>>an archive I can transport via copper as needed... and run pkgadd on
>>these transported file.. not install it off this ephemeral, unmountable
>>and with no filesystem I can discern floppy that has no floppy drive to
>>be put into.
>>
>>(and have an archive)
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Les Connally
>>
>>pkgadd did install files in /opt (I used a fake /opt) and ran a driver
>>install script (moved stuff to /kernel eg), but the actual pkg config
>>file that made all this happen was not installed.. (thankfully a remove
>>script was) so the installed files could not function as my archive...
>>missing scripts/config files and things
>>
>>It was suggested that this might be a cpio file (and thus unmountable)
>>and that cpio might extract the files, but I could not get cpio to work..
>>error: "Impossible Headers"
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