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running "script" from Steven Jenkin's MSDOS boot disk
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Posted by: gmac

I am in the process of upgrading and hacking my HDR31203.
(thanks to many members of this forum).
Everything is moving along well, but when I try to run the script, I get a message that the directory or file doesn't exist. I can see
and edit) the file. What am I missing? I NEED the network connection.
Can anyone help me out?:confused:

Posted by: Robert S

Assuming this is actually a Linux boot disk rather than MSDOS, you may have to specify that path, even if the script is in the current directory. Try ./script rather than script.

Posted by: gmac

Thanks for your suggestion. The disk is MSDOS. The PC is booted with LINUX OS, but the instructions say to copy the files to an MSDOS disk.

I did try the ./script, but with the same results.

Maybe there is a command that the script file is supposed to be called from?? I'd even be willing to type everything in from the command line, if I knew more about LINUX.

If you have any more ideas, please let me know.

Posted by: Robert S

Ah, so it's not an MS DOS boot disk, it's just a FAT-12 floppy that's used to make files available under Linux.

It might help if you mention the name of the file you're trying to execute - I'm left with an unsettling feeling that you actually typed ./script, although you seem a relatively inteligent fellow.

It may also be that you need to call the interpreter explicitly - normally that happens automatically. So you might have to do something like

sh /mnt/floppy/script

Can you link to the document you're working from?

Posted by: gmac

There are a couple of things which are confusing the issue. The filename is actually "script". The second is that there are a couple sets of instructions out there. The one I am referring to says to format a dos disk with the /s parameter.

I am learning as I go... I will get back to you, but wanted to thank you for such a quick reply. I am currently typing everything from the command line.

Even if that works, I want to solve the "script" mystery. If it doesn't, will forward the instruction file to you and a link to the source material to see what you can decipher.

Thanks again.

Posted by: Mars Rocket

The DOS disk is only used as a carrier so you can download some files in Windows and then make them available to the system when you are booted in Linux; there's nothing called "script" that I can find a reference to anywhere in Steve's document. There are some scripts you will create in Linux later on, but that's long past the point you've used the DOS floppy.

The /s parameter of the format command tells Windows to make the DOS disk bootable, and is unecessary unless you have a locked Quantum hard drive you are trying to upgrade because in that case you would need to boot into DOS and run the qunlock.exe program. If you don't have a quantum drive, you can ignore the /s paramter and just make a blank DOS-formatted floppy.

Posted by: gmac

Thanks, "Giant Purple..."
That is what I thought as well, but successive failures wore away my confidence. My real problem was mixing some old instruction with new.

I now have the files on my TiVo "a" drive, but...

my LAN is connected to a cable modem and the IP information is handled by them. I typed in valid information from on of the workstations and took it off-line. I wasn't able to ping or telnet to that address. if you (or anyone else) can help me limp along, maybe I can get the job finished.

Thanks...