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This section contains the text of an inst session. This session uses Miniroot Installation, a local tape drive, and a tape that contains 4Dl-4.0 Installation Tools and eoel. The workstation currently has 4Dl-3.3 installed. The session demonstrates the use of install and keep to make selections.

This and the following example sessions are shown as if the

textport/window were infinitely tall. Commentary is inserted in indented, regular font paragraphs.

Current system date is Fri Feb 26 16:05:11 PDT 1993 Mounting file systems:

/dev/dsk/dksOdls0 on /root /root/dev/usr on /root/usr Default location of new software is tape

The software distribution source is local tape.

If you are a first-time inst user, give the command "help beginner". Display information about software subsystems Perform software installation and removal now Select sUbsystems to be installed Enter interactive mode for install/remove/keep Get information about installed software Get help in general or on a specific word Go to the Administrative Commands Menu Terminate software installation

Give the 1 i s t command to see what subsystems are in the software distribution.

Reading installation history database

inst is reading information about currently installed software and previous software distributions from the installation history database.

Reading product description from /dev/nrtape:

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One line for each available product is displayed.

eoe1 Execution Only Environment 1 4Dl-4.0 Computing disk space changes:

eoe1

Reading the installation history database, reading the product descriptions, and computing disk space were done because they hadn't yet been done for this software distribution source. These operations may take a few minutes. They are not done every time you give the list command.

i installation requested r removal requested

default subsystem at initial installation subsystem must be installed from the mini root subsystem required for basic system functionality Subsystems available for installation (list installable):

i

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/usr Description

The subsystems in this list are the subsystems available for installation. The installation selections that inst has made have an i in the first column. Only the subsystem with X in the second column is currently installed. The two

subsystems with + after their names, eoel.sw.lib and eoe1.sw.unix, are required for basic system functionality according to the legend above, so we make a mental note that they have to be selected for installation. The second and third columns show the change in disk space in I and lusr if each of these subsystems were installed.

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Disk space summary (512-byte blocks) : Effect of install selections 4253- 7345+

Effect of remove selections 0+ 0+

Installation overhead 15+ 104+

Net change in blocks 4238- 7449+

Blocks available 11340+ 419823+

Since the number of blocks available on the disk (11340 blocks in the I file system and 419823 blocks in the lusr file system) is more than the additional disk space that would be taken up by these installation selections (7449 additional blocks used in the lusr file system and 4238 fewer blocks taken up in the I file system), plenty of disk space is available for this installation.

Now select eoel.man.relnotes for installation.

Inst> install eoel.man.relnotes

Next, choose not to install eoel.man.audio and eoe1.sw.audio with the keep command. To remember the meaning of keep, think "keep things the disk the way it is" or "keep the second column the way it is." In this case, it means keep these subsystems uninstalled. * is used as a wildcard for the product and image names.

Inst> keep *.*.audio

Check the current installation selections with list.

Inst> list

i installation requested r removal requested

default subsystem at initial installation subsystem must be installed from the mini root subsystem required for basic system functionality Subsystems available for installation (list installable):

Subsystem _/ /usr Description

eoe1.man.audio * o 90+ Audio Manual Pa.ges

Using inst

This line tells us that eoel.man.audio is not selected for installation, but if it were installed, our disk space usage in the root file system (/) would not change. eoel.man.audio would take up 90 blocks on the /usr file system if it were installed.

i eoe1.man.relnotes * o 189+ Workstation Release Notes

eoel.man.relnotes is selected for installation. Again, the disk space numbers tell us what the change (+ for increase or -for decrease) will be if the subsystem is installed.

eoe1.man. slip * 0 12+ SLIP Manual Page

eoe1.man.unix 0 4773+ Basic UNIX documentation eoe1.sw.audio * 3+ 529+ Audio Software

An older version of eoel.sw.unix is already installed. From looking at these numbers, we can guess that a lot of files that used to be in the / file system have moved to the /usr file system in this new release.

Disk space summary (512-byte blocks) : Effect of install selections 4256-Effect of remove selections 0+

Installation overhead 15+

Net change in blocks 4241-Blocks available 11340+

6915+

0+

102+

7017+

419823+

These installation selections look good, so it's time to start the installation of files.

Inst> go

Removing old versions of selected eoe1.sw subsystems Installing new versions of selected eoe1.sw subsystems Installing new versions of selected eoe1.man subsystems Installation and/or removal succeeded.

You can insert another tape or CD-ROM now.

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The installations from this software distribution have been completed, so take the eoel tape out of the tape drive and put in the next tape. Give the 1 i s ^t command and use the same procedure as already shown. When you're finished with all of your tapes, you can finish up the installation using the steps in the next chapter.

Using inst