sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org 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"Received on Thu Aug 16 16:43:44 2001
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