Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 14:20:05 -0400 From: Tony Kanakis <kanakis@hsi.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: kanakis@hsi.com Subject: Creating install tape Message-ID: <322F19D5.28C2@hsi.com>
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The handbook reads...
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2.2.4. Before installing from QIC/SCSI Tape
Installing from tape is probably the easiest method, short of an on-line
install using FTP or a CDROM install. The installation
program expects the files to be simply tar'ed onto the tape, so after
getting all of the files for distribution you are interested in,
simply tar them onto the tape with a command like:
cd /freebsd/distdir
tar cvf /dev/rwt0 (or /dev/rst0) dist1 .. dist2
Make sure that the `floppies/' directory is one of the ``dists'' given
above, since the installation will look for `floppies/root.flp'
on the tape.
When you go to do the installation, you should also make sure that you
leave enough room in some temporary directory
(which you will be allowed to choose) to accommodate the full contents
of the tape you have created. Due to the non-random
access nature of tapes, this method of installation requires quite a bit
of temporary storage. You should expect to require as
much temporary storage as you have stuff written on tape.
Note: When going to do the installation, the tape must be in the
drive before booting from the boot floppy. The
installation probe may otherwise fail to find it.
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What files do I want and from what directory? I tarred the files from
/bin at the http://www.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.5-RELEASE/bin/*.* site
and the install said it couldn't find 'bin' and other directoies.
Should I tar /bin as directory? And I completly off base or what?
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