On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 17:21, Simon Chalk wrote: > Is it possible to edit an lrp package on a Bering floppy on another machine. > > I have a problem on one machine where incorrect configuration has stopped > access to the console. So I am unable to use LRCFG, since no console access > is possible. > > Dumb I know! > > Regards, > > Simon. >
It may not be obvious from the name, but an LRP package file is just a regular gzip'ed tar file, which you can unpack into a directory structure and edit before re-creating the LRP package file. If your other machine is running Linux, you can mount the disk as user 'root' under a temporary directory (e.g. /mnt/tmp - create this if it doesn't already exist) using a command like "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt/tmp" You can then unpack the contents of e.g. etc.lrp with a command like "tar -zxvf /mnt/tmp/etc.lrp" which will create a new directory "etc" in the current directory containing the contents of the Bering /etc directory. Re-creating the LRP file once you've made the changes is mostly just the reverse of the above (e.g. "tar -zcvf /mnt/tmp/etc.lrp etc"). I seem to recall that the maximum possible compression is used for LRP files to make as much as possible fit onto a floppy disk, but presumably if you don't do that it will get corrected next time you write the file from LRCFG. Don't forget to "umount /mnt/tmp" before ejecting the disk. If your other machine is running Windows then I think it's possible to use WinZip to read .tar.gz files, but you may have to rename them as such first. I'm not sure if WinZip can create a .tar.gz file though. -- David M Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
