Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 14:02:20 -0800 (PDT) From: cooldoug@hushmail.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD ROM Message-ID: <200005242103.OAA29574@mail3.hushmail.com>
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At Wed, 24 May 2000 13:42:07 -0700, Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> wrote: >> I've purchased your FreeBSD 4.0 CD's with the intent of looking >at the >> INET (C) source code. >> I don't want to install the operating system on my PC (currently running >> NT, ick). >> >> Is it possible to install the software without installing the OS >on my >> PC, thus extracting the >> source code? >> >> If not, are the source code files extractable from the CD in some >other >> manner? >> (I've had no luck with the *.tgz files in \packages\all directory >using >> winzip) >> > > Unless there is a new Micro$oft FreeBSD emulator out there, > you will need to install the Berkeley OS itself to run FBSD > binaries. > > If you have expertise in software porting you could try > porting the source, or parts of it. > > Dunno how you can gunzip and untar the tarballs, but the > source is probably on the Life Filesystem CD. > > ---Anybody else? Sure. I don't think he wants to run the binaries. And winzip on win32 will unzip gnuzipped stuff. So will java's jar, interestingly enough. But probably the simplest solution would be to ftp to "the site" and simply browse through whatever he wants, wouldn't it? IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you are not using HushMail, this message could have been read easily by the many people who have access to your open personal email messages. Get your FREE, totally secure email address at http://www.hushmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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