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["Sheldon Isaac" <SheldonIsaac AT MyRealBox.com>]

On 3 Feb 2005 at 21:31, dick allen wrote:

> Silly me.  Used the  <install-to-hd>  command easily once I put the <-to-hd>
> on end, previously I had only tried <install> thinking it was a shell
> command, but I suppose it is a piece of scrip or something but in the PATH
> somewhere.  Had looked for it unsuccessfully.   

Not sure where it was when you looked for it. I'm in Windows now, but used 
explore2fs , and it's on my HD in /usr/local/sbin

Not sure it's the same install-to-hd  ?

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#!/bin/sh
clear
echo
echo
echo
echo
echo
echo
echo "    Before you begin this installation, you must:"
echo
echo "        (1)  prepare a Linux partition"  
echo
echo "        (2)  use mke2fs to put a filesystem on that partition"
echo
echo "        (3)  mount the partition on /hd" 
echo
echo
echo
echo
echo -n "Are you ready to start the installation? "
  read REPLY 
  case $REPLY in n|no)
    exit
  esac
echo
ls /hd | grep -q lost+found
case $? in 0);; 
  *) echo "Sorry, I can not find an ext2 partition on /hd."
     exit
esac
ls /hd | grep -q i 
case $? in 0)
  echo "Sorry, the partition on /hd is not empty."
  exit
esac
for i in /bin /dev /etc /home /lib /root /sbin /usr /var ; do
  cp -a "$i" /hd
  echo -n "."
done
for i in fd hd mnt proc tmp ; do
  mkdir /hd/$i
done
cd /hd/etc
set -- `mount|grep '/hd '`
echo "$1   /       ext2   defaults  1  1" >fstab
echo "/dev/fd0    /fd     msdos  noauto    0  0" >>fstab
echo "none        /proc   proc   defaults  0  0" >>fstab        
cat /etc/rc|sed "s=/dev/loop0=$1="|grep -v swapon|grep -v sync>rc
cd ; umount /hd
echo "loadlin zimage root=$1 rw " >/DOS/baslin/hd.bat
echo
echo
echo "TRANSFER COMPLETE"  
echo "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
echo "To boot your new partition, execute HD.BAT instead of BOOT.BAT"
echo