Re: Creating disks

From: Michele Andreoli ([email protected])
Date: Thu Mar 08 2001 - 13:30:04 CET


On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 07:22:35PM +0100, Jan Leveren nicely wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry if I missed something obvious.
> But, If i want to create a disk from a tgz-package, for example X11.tgz, how
> do I proced.
>
> Don't missunderstand me know, I know about creating disks from the
> installationsdisk, but if i skipped one, or the disk gets corrupted. Is
> there a wizard or something from within my MU-system to do so?
>

You can always mount the disk with the addons on /mnt, then load the
addon with:

                # setup -f XYZ from=/mnt/path/XYZ.tgz.

As alternative:

                # fdformat /dev/fd0H1722
                # cat XYZ.tgz > /dev/fd0H1722
                # setup -f XYZ

Michele

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