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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!hookup!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.sprintlink.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!gnome.co.uk!not-for-mail From: jacs@gnome.co.uk (Chris Stenton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: guru needed: manual installation Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 16:48:26 GMT Organization: Gnome Computers Limited Lines: 23 Sender: usenet@gnome.co.uk (Charlie Root) Message-ID: <DD040q.28A@gnome.co.uk> References: <kehletDCywB3.80n@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hawk.gnome.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: gnome.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950621BETA PL0] 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 - ) will work Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Chris Stenton chris@gnome.co.uk Gnome Computers Ltd Tel/Fax: 44 (0)1480 406164 25A Huntingdon St, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, PE19 1BG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------