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From: izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 2.1 upgrade
Keywords: 2.1 upgrade, OD, floppy
Message-ID: <1991May23.201139.4668@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 23 May 91 20:11:39 GMT
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In article <1991May23.141333.22849@socrates.umd.edu>
 fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher) writes:
>Just when you thought all the upgrade questions were done---comes---
>
>Another upgrade question--I have the 2.1 upgrade on OD and would like
>to put it on floppies for a friend with a Station. How can I do this?
>I know how to split files but I don't know how the Installer handles
>this or what it excepts (since the packages are larger than a single
>disk.)
>
>Any info?

From the NeXT on-line documentation (search with "chunkPackage")
--- excerpt ---

The chunkPackage utility can be used to break up an Installeri
package (generated with the package script) when the package 
is too large to fit on a single volume (for example, a single 
floppy disk).  The chunkPackage utility is located in the 
Installer file package:

	/NextApps/Installer.app/chunkPackage

The chunkPackage utility has the following command line 
syntax (the bracketed argument is optional):

	chunkPackage package  volume-size  [ -d destination-dir ]

Arguments:

package	is the Installer package folder generated by the package script.  

volume-size
	is the capacity in kilobytes of the volumes on which 
	the smaller packages will be stored.

destination-dir	
	specifies where to create the smaller packages.  If 
no destination is specified, the chunks directory is created 
in the current directory.

Given a package Foo.pkg, the chunkPackage utility createrectory 
Foo.chunks with the subdirectories Foo.1, Foo.2, ..., Foo.n 
and stores a smaller sub-package isn each of these subdirectories.
For example, the following command breaks up the Foo.pkg into 
a number of smaller packages that will fit on 1400-kilobyte 
(1.4Mbyte) floppies and places them in ./Foo.chunks:

	package Foo.pkg 1400 -d ./Foo.chunks

The ./Foo.chunks directory has the following structure after 
running this script:

	./Foo.chunks
	    /Foo.1/Foo.pkg
	    /Foo.2/Foo.pkg
	    ...
	    /Foo.n/Foo.pkg

Finally, you'll need to copy the Foo.pkg folder in Foo.1 onto 
floppy #1, the Foo.pkg folder in Foo.2 onto floppy #2, and so on.
--- end excerpt ----

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