Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 14:07:21 -0500 (CDT) From: "Dennis R. Conley" <conley@eecs.ukans.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: how to make the scsi install tape Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91.960728135703.24137A-100000@pluto.eecs.ukans.edu>
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Installation from scsi tape always fails. The drive moves the tape around from quite awhile, so I assume the failure is due to my having made the tape incorrectly. From INSTALL.TXT: |Installing from tape is probably the easiest method, short of an |on-line install using FTP or a CDROM. The installation program |expects the files to be simply tar'ed onto the tape, so after getting |all of the files for the distributions you're interested in, simply |tar them onto the tape with a command like: | | cd /where/you/have/your/dists | tar cvf /dev/rwt0 (or /dev/rst0) dist1 .. dist2 I assume "dist1", "dist2" are directories, e.g. % cd /src/tmp/freebsd/2.1.5-RELEASE % tar c ./bin ./des ./doc ./src Unfortunately, this didn't work. Nor did: % cd /src/tmp/freebsd/2.1.5-RELEASE % cd bin ; tar c . % cd ../des ; tar r . % cd ../doc ; tar r . So I'm lost: which "files" are tar'd onto the tape ( or, rather, from which part of the 2.1.5-RELEASE path is the tar performed )? Many thanks.
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