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- Note: these files were read from 9-track, and as per the following note,
- the 2nd and 3rd "raw tape files" are themselves already compressed. file01 is
- 4080 records of 1024 bytes each, file02 is 1610 records of 20480
- bytes each (except for the last one which is 4329 bytes), and file03
- is 2677 records of 20480 bytes each (except for the last one which
- is 14435 bytes). Note that the suggested 'dd' command in the
- letter below uses a blocksize of 10240 bytes. Tim.
-
- Letter attached to tape:
-
- August 23, 1992
-
- This is a distribution tape for the 4.4BSD-Alpha release.
- The package you received should have contained one 2400' 6250 BPI 9-track
- magnetic tape or one Exabyte 8mm cassette. Both distribution tapes
- contain three files, however, the second and third files on the 9-track
- distribution format are compressed (see compress(1)). The three files are
- as follows:
-
- 1) A dump(8) of the root file system
- 2) A tar format archive of the "/usr" file system
- 3) A tar format archive of the "/usr/src" file system.
-
- The binaries and kernel on the tape support the Hewlett-Packard
- 9000/300 68000-based workstations, as detailed on the next page. The dump
- does not contain a kernel, however, a compiled, generic kernel is part of the
- third file, in "/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC.hp300/vmunix". The
- tar format archives can be extracted into the current directory with a
- command such as:
-
- tar xpf /dev/tapename
-
- or, for the 9-track distribution format, with a command such as:
-
- dd if=/dev/tapename bs-10240 | uncompress | tar xf -
-
-
-