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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!nih-csl!helix.nih.gov!crtb From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) Subject: Re: Future Directions for BSD (was Re: What happened to these projects ?) Message-ID: <1993Apr30.155527.23228@alw.nih.gov> Summary: Apology for intemperate remarks Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda References: <1rk5v8INN6vp@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> <1993Apr28.135512.4010@alw.nih.gov> <1rmjpe$eoa@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 15:55:27 GMT Lines: 40 In article <1rmjpe$eoa@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) writes: >In article <1993Apr28.135512.4010@alw.nih.gov> crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) writes: > >>I thought 386bsd derived substantially from bsd4.4, and that this was >>such a superior implementation. Is 386bsd really such a student project? > >The problems you're having all have to do with installation, and >386bsd's installation process is not derived from CSRG work, as >far as I know. > >Chet >-- >``The ballpark is quiet now, save for the sound of droplets landing. That > is as it should be. For today there are two fewer boys of summer.'' > >Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu I got some well deserved flames. I'm ignorant enough that it took me a week of evenings to figure out the partition table. So, I managed to install from the patched dist.fs floppy, and extracted from the ten bin01 floppies. That was so easy that I decided to install the etc01 collection, all 17 3.5" floppies. That's where I discovered that `mv' and `cat' were crippled. Extract failed after 60 of the 97 cpio.Z chunks had been read, complaining "cat: too many open files." I had failed to reboot when advised to do so at the end of the bin01 extraction. Dumb. I was using the purposely shrunken versions of `mv' and `cat' which came on the dist.fs floppy. When I finally did reboot, I came up with a shining new, relatively complete 386bsd. So I want to apologize to the net for my stupidity, and promise to do a better job of RTFREADMEing before flaming! Meanwhile, I'll see what damage I can do with XFree.. -- Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov ( alas, not my 3b1 )-: ABHOR SECRECY - DEFEND PRIVACY