Problem in loading unsupported subsets

[George Robbins]

In article <1991Jun12.173655.16342 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mmg9106 at uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Massimo  MacUcci) writes:
> 
> I have a strange problem in installing some of the unsupported subsets
> on a DECstation 2100.
> When I try to load the Unsupported X11 Components from the tape, I get 
> the following error:
> 
> There is not enough file system space to install all of the software
> subsets that you have selected. Make another selection
> 
> From the manual it seems that this subset should require 16455 kbytes in
> the /usr partition and we have more than 40 Mbytes available there.
> 
> Is there anybody who knows how to convince the DECstation to load this 
> subset ?

Go into /usr/etc/subsets and find the files associated with that subsets,
one of these, XXXX.ctrl has a line mtloc x:n, where n is the position of
the file on the distribution tape.  Skip n-1 filesthen do a
"dd if=/dev/... bs=20b | compress -d | tar xvpf -".

Creating a file XXXX.lk will make setld believe it's installed.

Proceed carefully, lest you load the wrong crap in the wrong place...

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