diskette copying in rt/aix

[Chuck Karish]

In article <1989Oct14.195624.28924 at acheron.uucp> clarke at acheron.uucp
(Ed Clarke/10240000) wrote:
>From article <5827 at portia.Stanford.EDU>, by karish at forel.stanford.edu
(Chuck Karish):
>- Installp uses backup format, like updatep.  I've had good luck using
>- restore to read the files from diskette into a directory hierarchy on
>- hard disk, then use backup to collect the hierarchy into a single file
>- in hard disk.

>There's a command to do this - /etc/bffcreate.  It does the same thing for
>you in one step.   Before someone told me about this, I was doing the same
>thing as you are.  

Two problems:

	- bffcreate is not present in PS/2 AIX.

	- bffcreate (or `updatep -ba', anyway) doesn't let you choose
	  where the hard-disk files get put.  You need space for
	  everything on the diskettes in root AND in /usr.  As I
	  recall, `updatep -ba' extracts the files into /usr/lpp,
	  re-archives them into /etc/lpp, and deletes the stuff in
	  /usr.  I didn't find a way to change this behavior.

	Chuck Karish		karish at mindcraft.com
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