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And then cpio tells me that it found the end of medium on "input" ....
and wants a filename or a device name to continue.  

I can uncompress the file with no error.  Parts of the archive get
extracted, but I never get the installdu.sh or (i think) a significant
portion of the distribution files.....

Any suggestions, or does anyone have a similar experience.....

Thanks...
Brendan

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R. Brendan O'Connor     | Bastard, bastard, bastard!
EE Grad Student         |
*ia Tech           |

Quote:>Has anyone installed the DU7 video driver disks?  I've gotten them
>off server.berkeley.edu and have had _significant_ problems with the
>files. I create the disk images using the dos dd utility and then go to
>my Solaris machine to read in the cpio archive .... I follow the
>directions in the manual (cpio -iduBI /dev/diskette0) and then zcat the
>vdu7image.Z file to cpio -icudB  ......

>And then cpio tells me that it found the end of medium on "input" ....
>and wants a filename or a device name to continue.  

>I can uncompress the file with no error.  Parts of the archive get
>extracted, but I never get the installdu.sh or (i think) a significant
>portion of the distribution files.....

>Any suggestions, or does anyone have a similar experience.....

BA

It's a 2 diskette image that's the first problem.  The second
problem is that the second diskette refuses to continue the
cpio.\

Here's how I got around it.

1)  volcheck to introduce the diskette to unix.
2)  dd in the first diskette file. ["if" is whatever eject -d responds with]
      (dd if=/vol/dev/rdiskette0/unlabeled of=vid_1 bs=18k)
3)  eject command and eject the floppy from the drive.
4)  load the second diskette and volcheck to introduce it to unix.
5)  dd in the second diskette file. ["if" is whatever eject -d responds with]
      (dd if=/vol/dev/rdiskette0/unlabeled of=vid_2 bs=18k)
6)  cat the two vid files into a single file.
      (cat vid_1 vid_2 > vid_upd)
7)  cpio in the vid_upd file
      (cpio -iduvBI vid_upd)  I like to see the file name.
8)  zcat the resultant file and cpio that in (sorry, I don't have
    the name in front of me I'm at home):
      (zcat file.Z | cpio -iduvc
9)  install the patches as usual.

Hope this helps.