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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > I have a Slackware 3.2 CD.  I forgot how to mount it in BL2.
> > First I did 
> > insmod cdrom
> > insmod ide-cd
> 
> Those insmods are unnecessary in BL2 (which has CDrom 
> capability already built into the kernel).  It is BL3
> which needs CDrom insmods.
I meant to type BL3 (SW3.2 CD goes with that).

> 
> > Then 
> > mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hdc /cd
> 
> This works for me:  mount /dev/hdc /cd
Can't find a valid MSDOS filessystem if I omit the -t iso9660 -r part.

> 
> > (I first did mkdir /cd)
> > It complains about a device not existing.  Where did I goof?
> 
> Are you sure your CDrom drive registers on /dev/hdc ?
> ----------------
> dmesg | grep hdc
> ----------------
dmesg|less told me hdc..... ATAPI CD-ROM drive
(just after the lines about hda and hdb).

My error message is
Mounting /dev/hdc/ on /cd failed:  No such device.

I have a CD in the drive.  I can read it in DOS (as g:).  It is even a 
linux CD.  A newish drive (32X) definitely ATAPI.  I don't recall if it 
worked in BL2 and I can't check that while in BL3, can I?  

> 
> > How would one make a linux package in BL3, where there is 
> > no makepkg?  Can it be done just using tar, if the package 
> > just consists of three files and no script to make symlinks?  
> 
> Yes.  Do your tar from the top directory and use the full path
> name to each file you want to put in the package.
> 
> > I tried tar -cxvf * 
> 
> The -x is wrong.  It means extract.  

Thanks.  I also did tar --help to learn that you need to first specify the 
name of the output file, then the various input files.  I was able to use 
* instead of typing out everything in each subdirectory.  I renamed the 
libraries instead of trying to make a script to do symlinks, or however I 
should in theory have done this.

tar -czvf /seejpegbl3.tgz usr/bin/seejpeg /usr/lib/*

This produced a 191K file which I will post at www.iamjlamb.com/~keesan 
for a anyone else interested in using BL3 with links and a viewer in 4MB 
RAM (no X).  

 > Cheers,
> Steven