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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!replicant.csci.unt.edu!jackson From: jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: guru needed: manual installation Date: 9 Aug 1995 06:53:53 GMT Organization: University of North Texas, Denton Lines: 27 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <409m21$dr3@hermes.acs.unt.edu> References: <kehletDCywB3.80n@netcom.com> <DD040q.28A@gnome.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu In article <DD040q.28A@gnome.co.uk>, Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk> wrote: >Steven Kehlet (kehlet@netcom.com) wrote: >: The installation program keeps rebooting my machine. I've been with >: FreeBSD long enough now that this is absolutely driving me crazy that >: I can't get it to work. >: Can someone tell me how I can extract all the bin.?? files by hand? >: I think its a cpio command, with gunzip, or something. > I think something of the form > cat bin.* | (cd / | tar zxvf - ) Also add the --unlink option so tar can overwrite even files that are busy. This is particularily important if you install the DES encryption so that all the relevant files get updated. Also you messed up the syntax a bit in the parentheses. Try: cat bin.* | (cd / && tar --unlink -xzvvpf - ) -- Bruce Jackson | P. O. Box 13886-NT | GAB 550E UNIX Systems Admin. | Denton TX 76203-3886 | (817)565-2279 Computer Sciences | jackson@cs.unt.edu | FAX (817)565-2799 Univ. of North Texas | http://replicant.csci.unt.edu/~jackson/