Where on the tape is ...

[Dale Mensch]

In article <9583 at brazos.Rice.edu>, karen at pemrac.space.swri.edu (Karen Birkelbach) writes:
> On the SunOS installation, which category would contain /usr/lib/fonts?
> I'm trying to install a minimum operating system, but I need the fonts.
> karen at pemrac.space.swri.edu                 Southwest Research Institute

You can find out where things are on boot tapes by doing this (yanked from
SPARCstation1 SunOS 4.0.3c Sun-4c Release Notes, in section 3.6 "How to
View Files in Categories on Tapes"):

cd ~/tape.contents (Go to a working directory)
mt -f /dev/nrst8 asf 1 (Note the "n" prefix on the tape device)
dd -f=/dev/rst8 bs=200k | /usr/etc/install/xdrtoc > TOC

This will spit out stuff like this:

> SunOS 4.0.3c 700-2212-10 Rev. A of Fri May 26 12:45:09 PDT 1989 from Sun Release Engineering
> ARCH sun4c
> VOLUME 1
>  Vol File             Name       Size	Type
>    1    0             boot      49152	image
>    1    1           XDRTOC       4096	toc
>    1    2             copy       8704	image
>    1    3        mini-root    6246400	image
>    1    4            munix     770560	image
>    1    5          munixfs    2150400	image
>    1    6             root     204800	tar
...
>    1   14    SunView_Users    2252800	tar
>    1   15 SunView_Programmers    1433600	tar
etc.

I went to all the "tar" files on the tape, and did a "tar tfv >
tar.SunView_Users", for example, on each of them.  For minimalization,
this makes it easy to find any given little file you think you want.
Saving all the tar contents takes up about .6 Meg.

Dale Mensch-Xerox Corp/Intran Operation.-Mpls. MN.- uunet!intran!dale