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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1681 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:53:20 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Installation, XFree86, and mouse... Date: 18 Feb 1993 08:45:50 -0600 Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX Lines: 30 Message-ID: <1m07euINNrif@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <C2oI1y.J3B@unix.portal.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <C2oI1y.J3B@unix.portal.com> mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) writes: >After finding out that the install_notes isn't correct, I was able to >install 386bsd - and I like it VERY much so far. The problem with the >install_notes is that it doesn't tell you to extract the bindist first, >then REBOOT, then extract the etcdist. Note that the extract program >is put into /tmp by the install floppy and it will go away after the >reboot and before you extract etcdist. To extract the etcdist, after >getting the etc01* files into /tmp, use the following command: > cat /tmp/etc* | uncompress | cpio -iadm > I had problems with this when I first installed 386bsd. I found that I would run out of some resource (I don't remember which) and found that it was better for me to use a 'for' loop structure. for i (/tmp/etc*) do cat $i rm $i done | uncompress | cpio -iadm This way, the etc distribution files are deleted as the uncompress stream is built and no extra space on the disk is required. -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX