Installing GRASS on the Sun Station..

[Dave Gerdes]

> From: rob at zorro.cecer.army.mil (Rob Knauerhase)
> Subject: Re: Installing GRASS on the Sun Station..
> To: grassu-list at amber.cecer.army.mil
> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 15:07:08 CDT
> In-Reply-To: <9204071534.AA00552 at ibnrochd.rsinet.tn>; from "Salah Benabdallah" at Apr 7, 92 4:34 pm
> 
> In an E-mail message, Salah Benabdallah said:
> >We followed the instructions for installing GRASS from CD_ROM on
> >SUN SPARC. We found out that all the files are linked to GRASS_CD
> >directory which is the mount point of the CD_ROM.  However, we
> >would like to have the GRASS software to be on the hard disk and not
> >linked to CD_ROM.   Any suggestions ?
> 
> Salah,
> 
>     I assume you're talking about the CD that's distributed by Young Minds?
> If so, what you might want to do is mount the CD and run the script to set up
> symlinks as they say.  Then, make a directory with a different name (like
> /grass.tmp or something).  Go to the /GRASS directory (which has the symlinks
> to /GRASS_CD on the CD) and type "cp -r /GRASS /grass.tmp" -- the "-r" to the
> cp command means copy all subdirectories and files therein.
>     Then unmount the CD, remove /GRASS and /GRASS_CD (and all the links in the
> latter) and rename /grass.tmp to /GRASS.  You will then have all the GRASS
> executable files on your local disk.
>
>  ....
> 
> Rob
> 

  I would recommend using tar instead.  My experience is that
'cp' will hang when it tries to copy a fifo.   There are several fifo's
in the 'dev' directory of GRASS.

A typical tar command using the directories mentioned above is:

    cd /GRASS
    tar -cf - . | (cd /grass.tmp; tar -xvf -)



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  Dave Gerdes
  US Army Construction Engineering Research Lab
  Spatial Analysis & Systems Team
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