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From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Help with installing srcdist in 386bsd
Message-ID: <1992Aug28.023635.18787@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Date: 28 Aug 92 02:36:35 GMT
References: <1992Aug27.181005.25135@news.columbia.edu>
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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cl45@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ching-Tse Liu) writes:
: Hi,
: 
: 	I have problem installing the source distribution. Right after
: I installed the binaries distribution, I typed "rm bin01.*" then "
: loadfd". Now when it came to src01.37, the system stopped and refused
: to copy anymore files and didn't respond to control-c. I had no choice
: but to reboot. Of course it came up with the content of /tmp cleared.
: What did I do wrong ? I tried this twice with the same problem.
: 	Is it possible to install the source with the binaries installed?
: Or do I have to start all over ? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
: 
You may be running out of disk space.
You need to be selective in recovering src files. I recommend that you only
recover sys.386bsd. See my and other notes on this.
: 

--
Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg
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