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From: "Dennis R. Conley" <conley@eecs.ukans.edu>
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Subject: how to make the scsi install tape
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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.