making a patched installer

making a patched installer

Post by pixel fair » Tue, 23 Jul 2002 22:49:15



tried to make an updated installer by taring up most of the system
and the kernel and calling it base31.tgz and putting that on an
ftp server. while installing the package it kept saying device full
on the src (the drive is 80gigs, 7gigs in /, so im sure there was
space) any idea why? any suggestions for this? should i just
use updated versions of the files in the packages. i know some
files (fstab , /dev) are generated by the install...
 
 
 

making a patched installer

Post by tedu » Wed, 24 Jul 2002 03:03:07



> tried to make an updated installer by taring up most of the system
> and the kernel and calling it base31.tgz and putting that on an
> ftp server. while installing the package it kept saying device full
> on the src (the drive is 80gigs, 7gigs in /, so im sure there was
> space) any idea why? any suggestions for this? should i just
> use updated versions of the files in the packages. i know some
> files (fstab , /dev) are generated by the install...

It is probably downloading to /tmp or some other location.  read the
install script.

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making a patched installer

Post by Philipp Buehl » Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:50:19



>tried to make an updated installer by taring up most of the system
>and the kernel and calling it base31.tgz and putting that on an
>ftp server. while installing the package it kept saying device full
>on the src (the drive is 80gigs, 7gigs in /, so im sure there was
>space) any idea why? any suggestions for this? should i just
>use updated versions of the files in the packages. i know some
>files (fstab , /dev) are generated by the install...

Hm, Not-Enough-Information.

My pure guess is that you try to untar this package into
the ramdisk, which is on x86 by default 3560 blocks (~1.7MB).

partition the disk, and mount it accordingly and then untar
onto the harddisk.

ciao
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