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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

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

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > I typed:
> > tar -cvf temp.tar * --exclude-from=FILE
> >
> > Into FILE I put the following:
> > /windows
> > /progr~1
> > /mymusi~1
> > /putty
>
> I did something similar, except I did not put / at the
> beginning of the directory names.

First I tried without the / and then with.  I tried every combination I 
could think of, with the non-busybox BL2-on-ext2 tar.

> > I thought linux treated directories the same as files.
>
> It does.
>
> > It showed a long list of them onscreen.  Maybe it was
> > listing the files it did NOT include first?
>
> No, if it's listed on the screen, it goes into the
> archive.
>
> > What is a globbing pattern?  Does this mean I could
> > use wildcards as well as file names
>
> Yes.
I tried that too, it did not help.

> > The busybox tar may do the same things
>
> The busybox tar did -X and --exclude exactly as I
> expected.  However, when I tried the same commands
> with the full tar, it didn't work (for some reason
> I haven't figured out).

Nice to know I am not going crazy.  Many thanks for checking this out 
thoroughly.

Does BL3 on ext2 use the full tar or the busybox tar, and if the former 
did you check that as well as the full tar for BL2?  I only tried the last 
of these.

> > but the --help file did not mention anything about X
>
> The BL2 busybox and BL3 busybox both have the -X
> parameter for tar; however, only BL2 mentions it
> in --help

I was probably looking at the loop BL3 with busybox tar and decided to use 
BL2 full tar because --help did not mention -X.  I got rather confused 
comparing all the tars and --help files and man pages.

Odd that the BL2 full-version --help mentioned but does not actually work 
with -X, and the BL3 busybox version does not mention -X in the help file 
but works with it.

Does anyone else have a newer full tar that works with -X?

> > Can I use lilo to boot to DOS or Bl3, and when in DOS
> > use loadlin to boot to another linux?
>
> Yes.



I forgot that on this DFI computer loadlin would not work, which is why I 
was looking into lilo.  I now have it working with DOS 7.10, but another 
solution would be to use lilo to boot into one linux then chroot to any 
other you wanted to run (and bash -login and run rc files and make sure 
you start with as many vts as you want in the original linux).  You could 
run three other linuxes from the first one if you have 4 vts, if you 
wanted to compare and learn about different versions (Slackware, SuSE, 
etc.)  Or on a computer where loadlin works, instead of lilo you could 
boot with loadlin to loop BL3 and chroot to various ext2 linuxes.


I was able to chroot from RAMdisk or loop linux to BL3 or Bl2 ext2 linux. 
I cannot think of a good reason to do the opposite.  I could set up lilo 
to boot to Bl3 and use Bl2 when necessary via chroot, and if I needed 
RAMdisk linux use a 2-floppy version to boot it.

My hard drive software problem (could not boot to ext2) was a blessing in 
disguise as I have learned to chroot!  (We also discovered that the 33K 
modem is actually a 56K when the replacement motherboard could not find it 
at first.)

> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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