Re: HELP! Can't get Illustra Server off tapes!
Michael, Do you have a device pair /dev/nrct0 and /dev/rct0 - some tape devices can do non (nr) -rewind. That may be the problem. I've noticed some install tapes for Unix are delivered that way. You use tar xvf /dev/n-something, search to end of archive, repeat again and again till you reach the bitter end. Hope this helps, and forgive my ignorance if it doesn't. Yours, Nick ********************************* Nick Nobbe, Library of Congress NLS/BPH mail: nnob@loc.gov ********************************* On 13 Feb 1998, Seth Grimes wrote: > 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 >