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- From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
- Subject: Re: Questions: X server, the patched kernel, and ....
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 19:05:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep10.004644.9243@umr.edu> jlu@cs.umr.edu (Eric Jui-Lin Lu) writes:
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- >Greetings *,
- >
- >I fetched the X server and the patched kernel for X from
- >pub/incoming/X386. I found that ps works correctly with the patched
- >kernel. However, I have some questions:
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- >1. What kind of patches were put into this kernel?
- The readme file states the patches that were applied with respect
- to X. Additionally, the diffs for the patches were included.
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- >2. The X server is roughly 1MB while the X server I got from
- > pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/X386 is roughly 11 MB. In other words,
- > the debugging info is around 10MB. Am I correct?
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- You are correct.
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- >3. Is there a way to split the files so that it'll fit into
- > either 1.2M or 1.44M floppies?
- If you like you can use tar with the multi-volume option.
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- >4. Except that the X server from pub/incoming/X386 is more stable,
- Do you have any problems with the new server?
- I am just looking for feedback....
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- > do I have to get the rest bin, inc, lib, etc. files? Can I
- > use the files from /pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/X386?
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- For support reasons, I recommend getting the entire release.
- >
- >Thanks in advance! You can either post the answer here or email
- >me at jlu@cs.umr.edu.
- >
- >
- > --Eric
- >--
- >***************************************--- Grad. student ---*
- >* Obviousness is always the enemy of * \ Jui-Lin Lu (Eric) / *
- >* correctness. -- Bertrand Russell * / jlu@cs.umr.edu \ *
- >***************************************--- Univ. of Missouri-Rolla ---*
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- Amancio Hasty
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