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From: musik@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Sorry, everyone, but I'm cpio clueless...
Message-ID: <1992Jul17.160256.4518@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 17 Jul 92 16:02:56 GMT
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Evidently the distribution of 386bsd 0.1 is cpio'd...
The bindist directory contains a slew of files named
bin01.00 thru bin01.56 and the MANIFEST.
The INSTALL.NOTES say that this is ten floppies...
Do I just copy this stuff to floppies and then use
the install procedures outlined?  Or... do I need
to do something cpio-ish with these files before
I put them on the floppies, i.e. while they're still 
on the UNIX system I'm ftp'ing them with.

Sorry if this is really stupid...
But, I'd like to have a clue as to what I'm doing before
I spend several hours downloading files to ten floppies.  =)

Thanks a million,

D.G.
musik@iastate.edu

P.S. eMail replies would be great, or News, or whatever.  :)