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From: felawka@sitka.triumf.ca (Larry Felawka)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: any chance of...
Date: 30 Mar 1993 00:35:55 GMT
Organization: TRIUMF, Vancouver BC
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In article <matthew.733339478@femto.engr.mun.ca> matthew@nano.engr.mun.ca (Matthew Newhook) writes:
>What I would really really really like is a 0.1.2.2 kernel that expects
>the network card to be on irq 5, so I can actually use my machine. It
>is very hard to do anything with my machine right now, since it crashes
>under any sort of heavy load. (ie. compilation or untar over the
>network).
>
>Also: How can I unpack the srcdist files? I've tried
>
>cat src* | compress -d | cpio -pcdumv
>
>but this doesn't work... (Of course, this was on an Ultrix 4.2 machine,
>and I also tried this under solaris 2.1 (YUCK!))
>
>Any advice?
The unpacking of the 386BSD distribution files doesn't work on some systems
because the cpio file headers are binary (thus making the disributions non-
portable to other systems). I have written a quick-'n-dirty filter which
does byte swapping in the cpio headers, thereby allowing me to explode the
386BSD distributions on an IRIX system. I will make it available upon
request on condition that you do not tell anyone where you got it from (I am
not a programmer).
I humbly suggest that if and when the next batch of cpio-format binary
distributions are produced that they be produced with ascii headers.
Larry