who knows for how long we'll be able to read our floppies? that's why I try to copy everything to Compact-Flash media. but what to do if the installer is spread across several floppy-disks? here's how (should work with other packages, too):
rmNUG NeWS - May, 1991
Installing Improv On OD systems
by Art Isbell (edited here and there by mikeboss in 02/2013)
Since my posting about transferring Improv to my floppy-less Cube, several people have asked how I did it.
I have a friend with an OD/floppy Cube, so I transferred the floppies to an OD and sneakernetted the OD back to my Cube. However, I could have transferred the contents of the floppies in one of 2 ways. I could have used the Installer App to install the contents of the floppies on my OD and then copied the installed files to my HD. Frankly, I didn't think of this method until I had already used a straight copy to transfer the contents of the 3 Improv floppies to 3 directories of files on my OD, ImprovDisk1, ImprovDisk2, and ImprovDisk3.
So the first method works fine but will not actually give you copies of the floppies themselves. If having copies is important to you, using Install isn't straightforward once copies of the 3 floppies are on your HD; Install reports that all files can't be found.
1. Create a new directory, Improv.
2. Copy Install_Help.wn from ImprovDisk1 to Improv.
3. Create a new subdirectory in new folder Improv: Improv.pkg.
4. now Copy from ImprovDisk1/Improv.pkg to fresh Improv/Improv.pkg:
a. Improv.bom
b. Improv.info
c. Improv.sizes
d. Improv.tiff
e. rename Improv.tar.Z.1 to Improv.tar.Z
5. Using cat in a Unix shell, append Improv.tar.Z.2 to the end of Improv.tar.Z (cat Improv.tar.Z.2 >> Improv.tar.Z and repeat with cat Improv.tar.Z.3 >> Improv.tar.Z)
taken from:
http://nextstuff.info/mirrors/otto/html/pub/Documents/user-groups/rmNUG/May91.ps.gz