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From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: stupid question [NetBsd-0.8]
Date: 2 Aug 1993 18:33:21 -0500
Organization: Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks AFB, TX
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Message-ID: <23k88f$4jb@hrd769.brooks.af.mil>
References: <23k53rINNd45@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil
Keywords: Install etc release onto NetBSD system.

In article <23k53rINNd45@darkstar.ucsc.edu> david@maxwell.UCSC.EDU (Wizard of Oz) writes:
>Can *anybody* tell me how to extract the etc distribution 
>from 386BSD-0.1 onto a NetBSD-0.8 filesystem?  Please???

The FAQ, Sections 1 and 2, will tell you everything you EVER wanted to
know about unpacking the etc distribution.  The FAQ is available by
anonymous FTP from hrd769.brooks.af.mil:/pub/FAQ

I suggest you use grep and 'grep cpio FAQ*' once you get it.


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Brooks AFB, TX