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- From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
- Subject: extracting sys.386bsd sources only Re: zsh for 386bsd
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.010525.6750@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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- References: <1992Aug26.204022.24768@rwwa.COM>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:05:25 GMT
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- witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow) writes:
- :
- : Could you summarize the necessary steps? Lot's of us would like that.
- :
- If it were true that there are many of you like me, who would like to install
- only the kernel sources, then we should make an effort to ask the archive
- keepers to have a sys.tar.Z file for distribution. It surely would save a
- lot of downloading time and effort.
-
-
- I'm working on a Mips workstation running Ultrix 4.2 . The cpio commands will
- be very different for your particular workstation. My main problem is not
- so much of lack of space, rather of priorities. I want to concentrate on
- compiling my particular sources only. The utility sources tend to be more stable
- and we can easily download it from the 386bsd archives in directory
- filesystem(?) because they are small in size.
-
-
- ;first download all the etc files into a tmp space in your workstation,
- cd /usr/tmp
- ftp agate.berkeley.edu
- ......
-
- ;after that extract only the sys.386bsd directory
-
- cat src* | uncompress | cpio -idalmC usr/src/sys.386bsd
- ;note that the C is an Ultrix cpio option for compatibility with old BSD,
- ; before 4.2
-
- ; after that you'd better tar and compress it
- cd usr/src
- tar cvf sys.tar
- compress sys.tar
-
- ; you must copy the resultant file sys.tar.Z to a DOS diskete then use mread
- ; to transfer it to you 386bsd
-
- cd /usr
- mkdir src
- mread "a:*.*" .
-
- ;extract it
-
- zcat sys.tar | tar xvf -
-
- ; you have got your sys.386bsd sources
-
-
- EXPERIMENTAL:
-
- I'm experimenting with alternative ways of archiving distribution files using
- multivolume tar format which allows you to extract only relevant files from
- your distribution floppies. See my article on this.
-
- --
- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
- Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
- Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet
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