Installing GRASS on the Sun Station..

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From: rob@zorro.cecer.army.mil (Rob Knauerhase)
Subject: Re: Installing GRASS on the Sun Station..
To: grassu-list@amber.cecer.army.mil
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 15:07:08 CDT
In-Reply-To: <9204071534.AA00552@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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