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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!mlb.dmt.csiro.au!mlb.dmt.csiro.au!not-for-mail From: gsl@mlb.dmt.csiro.au (Geoff Lamb) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 -> current help sought Date: 31 May 1994 16:00:43 +1000 Organization: CSIRO Division Of Manufacturing Technology, Australia Lines: 41 Sender: root@mlb.dmt.csiro.au Distribution: world Message-ID: <2sejqb$844@atli.mlb.dmt.csiro.au> References: <2s01vs$o1b@masala.cc.uh.edu> Reply-To: gsl@mlb.dmt.csiro.au NNTP-Posting-Host: atli.mlb.dmt.csiro.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article o1b@masala.cc.uh.edu, wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) writes: > In article <2rrv8p$ce4@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, > John M Crawford <craw4d@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wrote: > >I'm trying to get my i386 machine running NetBSD-current using > >the bsd.faq notes (3.1.7: Marcwan description of how to) with > >little success. The description from the FAQ appears incomplete > >and out of date. Could someone provide/point me to better instructions? > > 3) Installng the Current NetBSD binaries: > # get the binaries from arch/i386 directory > umask 022 > gzip -dc bin.tar.gz | (cd /; tar xvf - ) > .... etc. What is wrong with using "tar zxvf bin.tar.gz" The "z" option on gnu's tar does an automatic "ungzip" > > > >John > > Woody > Geoff --------- __&__ / \ Geoff Lamb, CSIRO Div of Manufacturing Tech, | | Locked Bag No. 9, Preston, Vic, 3072, Australia. | (o)(o) Internet: gsl@mlb.dmt.csiro.au C .---_) Phone: +61 3 662 7795 | |.___| Fax: +61 3 662 7851 | \__/ /_____\ /_____/ \ / \ Segmentation fault (core dumped)