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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.imnet.ad.jp!news.join.ad.jp!sinetnews!newssinet!icews5!news.nca5.ad.jp!nfeed.gw.nagoya-u.ac.jp!news.ipch.shizuoka.ac.jp!news!purna From: purna@cs.shizuoka.ac.jp (Yusuf Wilajati Purna) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: adding components Date: 1 Feb 96 02:43:44 Organization: Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan. Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <PURNA.96Feb1024344@jaguar.cs.shizuoka.ac.jp> References: <+3XBGIAdDpCxEwY1@wire.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: jaguar.cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp In-reply-to: Clive Carmock's message of Sat, 27 Jan 1996 20:53:49 +0000 On Sat, 27 Jan 1996 20:53:49 +0000, Clive wrote: > I am fairly new to NetBSD, though am familar with Unix in general. > After recently havign installed NetBSD 1.1 I want to add extra > components, like the compiler, manual pages etc. > > Could anyone outline the correct procedure for me? The guides with > NetBSD seem to imply that this can be done in the same way as a new > installation. However I find that the Set_tmp_dir, Load_fd and Extract > commands are not available. I'm also a newbie for NetBSD, but I think that the easiest way is get the "tar-file" distributions instead of the "packed-file" distributions, and then "untar" the distributions from the root directory Hope this will help. Regards, YWP (purna@cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp)