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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!europa.asd.contel.com!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!JUTS!griffin!gab10 From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD 0.1 kernel sources ? Message-ID: <49kT02Wy1cdu01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 31 Jul 92 19:12:23 GMT References: <1992Jul29.192157.5426@nrao.edu> <712539144snx@close.demon.co.uk> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 32 In article <712539144snx@close.demon.co.uk>, peter@close.demon.co.uk (Peter Curran) writes: > I have a similar need, but I don't think this will work for me. I have > discovered that if the bin01 is extracted onto a disk <40MB (mine is 39 > and a bit) then it will not all fit on. The manuals are missing and > stuff like termcap out of /usr/share/misc are missing. Is there any way > that I can extract only the last few files only from the floppies? FYI, I noticed the other day that agate has a new subdirectory called 'filesystem' in the distribution directory (/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1) that seems to have the files already extracted. Also, you can extract specific files by: cd /; cat tmp/bin01.* | uncompress | cpio -idalmu <file1> <file2> ... You can obtain the names of all files on the bin01 distribution by: cat /tmp/bin01.* | uncompress | cpio -it >bin01.filelist Unfortunately, you still must have all of the files in the bin01 distribution online. An interesting solution to disk space problems might be: (for i in /tmp/bin01.*; do cat $i; rm $i; done) | uncompress | cpio -idalmu Since this removes the distribution files as it goes, freeing up disk space for the cpio extracted files. Use this at your own risk. #include <std/disclaimer.h> -- Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a | great idea hits you, and just before you realize | what is wrong with it.