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From: allard@isi.edu (Dennis Allard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: How download X386 to floppies?
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Date: 26 Aug 92 19:36:41 GMT
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My goal: create a set of floppies with the X386 distribution on them
and then extract that distribution onto my 386BSD.
My situation:
At home: 386BSD binary distribution up and running on a 386-33 clone
At work: HP-UX and SunOS workstations, one which has a floppy drive
I have already ftp'd the files core-{bin,server,fonts,inc,lib,man}-1.0.3.tar.Z
from agate.berkeley.edu to a fileserver at work. How can I create a
multivolume set of floppies which I can then use to install X on my 386 at
home?
I cannot use MCOPY to move the files to floppies as each one is far too big
to fit on a single floppy. This has GOT to be a simple problem, what am
I missing (besides a Unix User's guide, something which two decades of
Unix users have missed)?
Dennis
allard@isi.edu
(310)399-4740