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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Problem executing script from handbook129.html
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In article <32F50FCA.1450@hardware.com> you write:
>./disaster.floppy: 47: Syntax error: "&" unexpected
...
>Have I done something wrong or do I need to change something? I'd like
>to be 
>able to use this.  :-) TIA

You've done something wrong. You still have HTML damage in your code:

> #
> if [ ! -x /sys/compile/MINI/kernel ]
> then
>         cat &lt;&lt; EOM
> The MINI kernel does not exist, please create one.
> Here is an example config file:
> #


The "&lt;" are HTML objects representing "<".

Do a s/\&lt;/</g

Also replace "&gt;" with ">" wherever it occurs:

> gzip -c -best /sbin/init &gt; /mnt/sbin/init
> gzip -c -best /sbin/fsck &gt; /mnt/sbin/fsck
> gzip -c -best /sbin/mount &gt; /mnt/sbin/mount
> gzip -c -best /sbin/halt &gt; /mnt/sbin/halt
> gzip -c -best /sbin/restore &gt; /mnt/sbin/restore

And replace "&amp;" with "&":

> root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &amp;:/root:/bin/sh