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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA351 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:04:11 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!uw-beaver!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.Rice.edu!rich From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey) Subject: Re: Does anybody have a complete tar.Z file of filesystem? In-Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com's message of Fri, 29 Jan 1993 16:12:26 GMT Message-ID: <RICH.93Jan29234141@omicron.Rice.edu> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Reply-To: Rich@Rice.edu Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University References: <wagner.985.728099462@main.mndly.umn.edu> <1993Jan29.161226.966@sci34hub.sci.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1993 05:41:41 GMT Lines: 13 In article <1993Jan29.161226.966@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes: In article <wagner.985.728099462@main.mndly.umn.edu> wagner@main.mndly.umn.edu (Rick Wagner) writes: >This would make my life much easier for installing this. I haven't been >able to find such a beast on any of the FTP sites listed in the FAQ. Can >anybody point me to such a thing, if it exists? Considering that tar doesn't handle the device entries in /dev/*, you're probably not going to find any such image. GNU tar does archive /dev entries, but then have to unpack the archive as root. You may even be able to find some 386BSD ftp servers that will automaticly create .tar.Z archives of this on the fly. Rich@Rice.edu