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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>
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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.
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| great idea hits you, and just before you realize
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