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- From: bkc@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Bruce Caruthers)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: [386BSD] Install w/ only 41 Meg?
- Keywords: 386bsd
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.214017.7007@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 21:40:17 GMT
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- Hi. Now that I've finally figured out how to get my system to
- boot from the hard drive for 386bsd, and I have the binary distribution
- on disk (I take it that the mread utility doesn't handle 720K disks in
- a 1.44 drive too well? I had to transfer them all to 1.2 disks, since
- I only had four unused 1.44's), I am trying to extract it.
- I thought I had read somewhere, either on the net or in the
- docs I printed out (can't find it now), that I could install on a 40 Meg
- partition. After having twenty minutes of errors from extract about
- "device full" followed by a reboot after a message which flashed past
- my screen in a blur before the reboot (as with just about every error
- message I have noticed), I figure it just ain't so.
- Is there any way to do partial extracts at a time? (Since it
- checks the files first, it won't let me do just some at a time) Is
- there perhaps some way to manually extract the stuff from the
- bin01.[0-5][0-9] files? (The docs say it is a form of cpio compressed
- format, so can I use cpio to do so, one or a few files at a time?)
-
- Slowly getting frustrated (and $aving up for the larger
- additional drive),
- -bkc
-
- --
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- bkc@Princeton.EDU Bruce Caruthers '93 Princeton University bkc@Sgi.COM
- "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear
- never beginning to live." -- Marcus Aurelius
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