Need help reading tpip from floppy

[TXCOWBOY]

I am in the process of redoing my upgrade because I failed to increase the swap space during the original upgrade. I am using the PTV MFSTools CD for the upgrade. This CD includes tpip 1.1 but I would like to use tpip 1.2. Can someone post the commands to allow the me to use tpip from either a floppy or the fat32 (C:/) drive where my backup image is stored.

I have tpip 1.2 in both places but I don't know how to get the system to use those locations before going to tpip 1.1 on the Boot CD. Everything I have tried reports tpip version 1.1 from the CD. I have very little knowledge of Linux.

Thanks for your help.

[kschauwe]

Why don't you want to use Tpip 1.1?
It worked just fine on my WD 320Gb.

[TXCOWBOY]

kschauwe

I just wanted to use the latest version. If I am going to start all over, I wanted to make sure that it was right. I did a lot of reading and could not seem to find anyone who knew the difference between the two versions.

I am assuming that it is just a simple pathing problem to make it read the floppy or Fat32 before it reads the CD. I just need know how to mount the floppy and issue the correct commands. On the other hand, with what I know about Linux, I could certainly be wrong.

[Blackforge]

I wasn't able to boot the PTV disc, but most linux versions automount the floppy.

Have you looked under /mnt/floppy (ie. ls -l /mnt/floppy)?

otherwise:

does /mnt/floppy already exist?

If so,

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy


Also,

Then run tpip v1.2

tpip -1 -s /dev/hdX

Just make sure you use -1. Even if you look through the document, its supposed to be only for series1 that are bitswapped there is a bug in tpip.

[TXCOWBOY]

Blackforge

Thanks for the info. I will try it tonight and post the results.

Thanks for your help.

[TXCOWBOY]

OK here are the commands that worked. After doing the backup and restore I verified the version on the CD.

tipi -V
Version 1.1

I placed a diskette in the floppy drive that contained tpip v1.2. Then I entered

cd /mnt

mkdir floppy

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

cd /mnt/floppy

cp tpip /bin

cd /

This actually replaced the tpip version 1.1 in memory by writing over it with version 1.2. Once again I verified the tpip version that was available.

tpip -V
Version 1.2

Then I executed the following

tpip -1 -s /dev/<drive>

tipi came back and reported that it had initialized the swap correctly.

Thanks again Blackforge for your help.