Patches Installation

[Paul_6]

I use ws-ftp downloaded 2 Patches to my floppy disk which is DOS format, how to install the patches from floppy to my HP-UX box.

[Andreas Voss · Accepted solution]

Hi,

to copy from DOS diskette (i assume you have a HP-UX 10.20 workstation with floppy drive):

doscp /dev/floppy/c0t1d0:

if the file is gzipped:
gzip -dc < >

then

swinstall -s /

Regards

Andrew

[Brian M. Fisher]

If you have a floppy drive in your UNIX machine the following syntax can be used to list & copy files.

dosls /dev/rfloppy/XXXXX:
(where /dev/rfloppy/XXXXX can be obtained from an ioscan)

doscp /dev/rfloppy/XXXXX:/filename unixfile
(where /dev/rfloppy/XXXXX can be obtained from an ioscan, filename from a dosls, & unixfile is the name you want to make the UNIX file)

If you have no floppy drive in your UNIX machine, load the files onto a PC that is network connected to the UNIX box and use ftp which is part of MicroSoft's OS.

Brian
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