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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Upgrading 1.2 -> 1.3a
Message-ID: <10954@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 89 02:40:05 GMT
References: <162.2427093E@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <162.2427093E@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>Okay, I've got d1.2-1.3.tar.Z from bugs.  However, I've got a slight problem.   
>It's about 885K long, and I've only got a 360K drive.  How do I transfer it  
>into Minix format?  Am I going to have to uncompress it under DOS, untar it  
>onto multiple floppies, and then read in EACH AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL FILE onto  
>my hard disk with dosread (which can't handle wildcards)?  

Here's how I did it.  I put stuff in tar files that were less than
360k bytes long and put the tar files on DOS floppies.  Then I applied
a trivial change to the 1.1 minix tar program so that it would
understand '-' as the archive name.  At that point it became possible
to move the files to a minix disk using dosread and tar in a pipeline.
I did all my upgrading and patching and stuff on my Sun before moving
everything to minix for compilation.  I decided not to try to do the
upgrade on minix itself because of nightmare visions involving 27-hour
runs that end up bombing because somebody didn't have enough stack!

You also asked if a 3.5M (or so) partition would be large enough.  A
'du' in my 1.3 sources directory on my Sun shows about 5.2Mb used.  I
took a quick look around and didn't see any extraneous files eating
up space, but I could have missed something.  I suspect you may need
to shuffle stuff off onto floppies in order to compile the whole thing.

Paul Allen

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