Re: HELP! Can't get Illustra Server off tapes!
Michael, 1.) All you really need is the second tar file on the tape. It contains a tar file that, when untarred, contains all the files needed to run Illustra. I have installed Illustra from the tar file so I know it works. What I don't remeber is what, if anything, you need to do to the files after you untar the archive file. 2.) On Irix 6.2, the device named /dev/nrtape should represent the "no-rewind" tape device. Cheers, Robert On Sat, 14 Feb 1998 11:58:11 -0500 (EST), Nick Nobbe <nnob@loc.gov> wrote: > > 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 >>