Re: HELP! Can't get Illustra Server off tapes!

You can't just copy the file off the tape to disk an install from there? That's what I used to do. You untar (tar xvf) the file, set a few environment variables, and then run the MI_HOME/bin/miinstall (?) program and tell it the name of the tar file on disk. Seth "Michael (Micksa) Slade" <mslade@cadre.nepean.uws.edu.au> writes: >I've got Illustra Server on a DDS tape. I have an IRIX 6.2 machine and >a SCSI tape drive (a label on the bottom of the drive says "HP >C1533-E"). >I've managed to get the installation tar file off the tape by attaching >the drive to a PC and using some Linux rescue disks, but that's as far >as I got, partly because I don't know how to turn off auto-rewind (let >alone if the command I need is on the rescue disks), and partly because >the installation script doesn't seem to be flexible enough to install >off something besides a local or remote tape drive. >I'm sure I need to know a device name (like /dev/rmt/xxx or something), >but do I need to do some config tweaking as well? >Mick. >-----------------------------------------+------------------------------ >Michael (Micksa) Slade | Until Ace Ventura, no actor >mslade@cadre.nepean.uws.edu.au | had considered talking >http://mickworld.cadre.nepean.uws.edu.au | through his ass. - Jim Carrey >-----------------------------------------+------------------------------ -- -- Seth Grimes Alta Plana Internet & database design & development grimes@altaplana.com http://altaplana.com 301-891-2581 grimes@access.digex.net http://www.access.digex.net/~grimes