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From: PHoward@Husky1.StMarys.ca (Philip M. Howard)
Subject: How much diskspace needed for patch?
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Organization: Saint Mary's University, Halifax NS
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1993 14:01:12 GMT
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I guess that I have about 80Mb free on my 200Mb drive after loading Bin01,
Etc01 and Src01... and a few additional applications. Is that enough to
install the official patch?

I have also made a couple of alterations and I understand that the patch is
only 'guaranteed' to work with a virgin system, what kind of problems
should I look for? Changes include directory changes to get cron to work
and to create a necessary obj directory link for the man pages (I think).

Finally, is it worth the trouble? We have some practical reasons for
running 386bsd and so far things seem to work well enough to test our
applications.

Thanks in advance for any advice.
Philip

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Philip M. Howard
Technical Support Analyst, Computer Services
Saint Mary's University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
C A N A D A  B3H 3C3

internet: PHoward@Husky1.StMarys.ca