27 Jun
2023
27 Jun
'23
9:47 a.m.
On 27 Jun 2023, at 09:44, Bakul Shah
<bakul(a)iitbombay.org> wrote:
f space is not an issue, you can use split(1) to divide
the input in N pieces and then use a separate loop to copy
them to the media. If you want to stream the distribution
on stdin but still copy to N disks or whatever, you can
write a simple C program that will prompt the user to switch
media, print out checksum etc. If you want to *not* split
files across media (and no file is greater than media size),
you can use makekit from Rich Salz's cshar (comp.sources.unix
Volume 15).
Bakul,
Thanks for the note.
I’d not heard of “makeit” before, will go hunt it down.
1. this was the 1980’s, space was always an issue :)
2. There are many cases where you’ve only got a
stream. This distributions were the first
time I hit this problem type.
3. The distributions were a compressed tar or cpio
of a directory structure, to be exploded at destination.
There wasn’t a need to fit files onto media.
cheers
steve j
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