Re: [SETUP] mulinux cloned to HDD; can't install addons (22% stop)

From: Joshua Hudson (joshudson@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Jul 28 2001 - 00:21:35 CEST


From: Maciej Kalisiak <mac@cs.toronto.edu>

>On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 12:26:24PM -0400, Joshua Hudson wrote:
>>You are out of memory. There is simply not enough memory
>>for the kernel to bring bzip2 back to the forground while
>>running buffers and the like. It may be possible to proceed
>>like this (after using FAST BOOT), or it may fail.
>>
>>mkdir /usr/srv
>>cd /usr/srv
>>bzip2 -dck /path/to/srv.tgz > srv.tar
>>tar -xf srv.tar
>>rm srv.tar

>I'll try this out... how does one copy a file from a
>1.722M floppy to the HD? I only have the WKS.tgz file
>on a 1722 floppy and on my main PC desktop computer
>(i.e., not the one running muLinux), and splitting
>the huge files onto 2 1.44M floppies is a pain if I
>have to do it for all addons...

>I tried mounting those floppies using /dev/fd0H1722
>but it complains that it can't find a valid MSDOS
>filesystem (I'm using "auto" type in /etc/fstab, and
>have tried "fat"/"vfat")

OK, /path/to/wks.tgz -> /dev/fd0H1722

The addon images ARE the .tgz files. They were created
by "cat wks.tgz > /dev/fd0H1722".

Maciej Kalisiak mac@dgp.toronto.edu www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac

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